The richer sex
Subtitle: how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love, and family
By: Liza Mundy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781439197714; 9781439197738
Subjects: Social conditions; Social aspects; Women; Employment; Work and family
Description: A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. Journalist Liza Mundy takes us to the frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume the responsibility of primary earner and who gets the freedom of being the slow track partner. With more men choosing to stay home, Mundy shows how that lifestyle has achieved a higher status, and the ways males have found to recover their masculinity. And the revolution is global: Mundy takes us from Japan to Denmark to show how both sexes are adapting as the marriage market has turned into a giant free-for-all, with men and women at different stages of this transformation finding partners who match their expectations.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The new providers; title: The bargain; title: The overtaking; title: The new rules of mating; title: Competition and undermining; title: Let go, and lexapro; title: Stigma and female earning; title: Sex and the self-sufficient girl; title: Desirable women; title: The new world of marriage choices; title: The view from abroad; title: Our female future.