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The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
Written by Liza Mundy
Narrated by Coleen Marlo
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A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide.This flip in the economic order is inevitable, and Mundy demonstrates why it will also be a good thing for individuals and families. Both sexes will be free for the first time to make purely romantic choices-ones that have nothing to do with marriage as an economic partnership.The Richer Sex demonstrates that a growing number of men will be attracted to women because of their success. Women will behave more like men sexually, and men will yearn more for intimate connections with their partners. Couples will choose who in the partnership must assume the responsibility of primary earner, and who gets to have the freedom of being the slow-track partner. Kids of stay-at-home dads and female breadwinners will love the role reversal, and the global marriage market will become one enormous and wild merry-go-round as men and women try to match expectations.The first in-depth examination of this cataclysmic social revolution, The Richer Sex is one of those rare nonfiction books that will cause men and women to rethink how they are living their lives and what the changes around them mean.
Author
Liza Mundy
Liza Mundy is the bestselling author of Michelle: A Biography and Everything Conceivable. A longtime award-winning reporter for The Washington Post, she is currently a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5So what is the big deal? More women worldwide are educated and earning the money. Why is this such a compelling phenomena? The answer: because it is turning notions of parenthood, relationships, sex, and gender roles on their heads. With that turning comes considerable discomfort.
An educated person knows that society evolves. Those wishing to hark back to the good ole days often forget that them good ole days included women who couldn't vote, slavery, severe class warfare that included child labor and women locked in factories that burned down. It included addicting women who complained to heroine and anti-depressants making them believe they'd gone mad. It meant domestic abuse was hushed up giving wives no recourse but to stay put and take the beating. Thank goodness things change.
Mundy gives extensive consideration to the changes occurring in our society. She speculates on the changes currently in process and what these changes mean for the future. Are these changes bad? Probably not. Absolutely not, if people are willing to adapt. As Mundy advises, it's all about coming to new definitions of male and female, re-defining gender roles. For example, it isn't such a bad thing that men want to stay at home with their children while the women earn the money. If the jibing and ridicule on the social and family front (in-laws, etc.) would knock off the crap, a couple might just find a partnership that works outstandingly well.
Of course, not everyone will embrace change, and this is where the pitfalls lie. More women, more educated women, in tandem with less men and less educated men, mean that marriage is diminishing. Mundy specifically cites women who have remained single, "coupled" up with girlfriends (domestic or supportive relationships with no sexual activity), or simply choose to marry down. If women hang on to notions of traditional marriage, they will have to sacrifice their careers, and have to settle for the potentiality of a lesser income from a man. Men, on the other hand, are either all too willing to let her bring home the bacon while doing little but playing video games all day, or are so indignant at the changes they go abroad to find a traditionally subservient wife.
My opinion of all this: suck it up, cupcakes! Change is inevitable. Women are out enrolling and out graduating men in college. Get used to the idea that they have equal say in a relationship. I have pretty much done away with the prospect of coupling with a man. I cannot take the bullshit anymore. I no longer care to fight for him to notice me, support me, or applaud me. I will no longer accept a man who is unmotivated, and hell bent on making himself look more dominant by being with a weak woman. I have choices, and I have made mine. I know I sound exactly like the woman these 50s-style men would like to send back to the kitchen. Guess what? I do not answer to them, have to earn their respect, or care with they think. And, that is perfect! There is someone out there who will provide me everything I need emotionally without the competition or hurt ego. Gender isn't a priority. Anyone can fuck anyone else...it's a physical act anyone can carry out (though some are better at it than others). Men had their chance and they blew it. Time to explore other options.
If this all revealing too much, I do not apologize. I am hurt, tired, angry, and disappointed. I want that to come through in this review and I hope I've succeeded. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Generally interesting to read with lots of things to think about including socially constructed gender roles, femininity/masculinity, factors of education and culture. The topics are fun to discuss, but I wouldn't say that this is a fun read.