Breadwomen and Housebands
Five or six years ago, my mother and I sat in a darkened theater talking about a couple we knew. The wife was an executive with Ivy League degrees. The husband had some nebulous part-time job, but mostly he stayed home with the kids. What, I wondered, does he have that’s attractive to her? There was a pause. Sperm, my mother replied.
Breadwomen, a review of The Richer Sex (How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love, and Family) by Liza Mundy in the NYT.
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April 18th, 2012 at 22:14
reminds me of this article about how the sons in filipino families are coddled. parents don’t expect or ask them to help around the house because they’re the favored ones or because they’re men. not so for the daughters. so these daughters end up being better qualified managers at work for the management skills they’ve picked up at home.
anyway, what i wanted to point out was maybe all these women who write to auntie janey bemoaning the fact that they can’t find good men or that they’re being pressured by their friends and families to find someone and settle down should really face the fact that there aren’t good men out there and they’d be better off on their own.