How the recession treats men vs. women
This is an interesting one to watch. My assumption is the recession will hasten the demise of manufacturing jobs that traditionally draw more men than women. The unemployment numbers just released appear to confirm that, with men losing more jobs than women.
Now, fold other trends on top of that, such as women becoming better educated and increasingly dominating certain professions, and you get a volatile mix among couples — both those already married and those contemplating marriage.
Here’s Peg Tyre’s article (author of The Trouble with Boys) in todays’ NYTimes, “Daddy’s home, and a bit Lost.” (Photo courtesy of the Times)
If you’re new to this issue, sift through the “social consequences” links on the library to your right. My favorite graph from Peg’s article:
One mother in TriBeCa, who is married, at least for now, to a Wall Street executive, put it rather bluntly: “My job was to run the household and the children’s lives,” she said. “His job is to provide us with a nice lifestyle.” But his bonus has disappeared, and his annual pay has dropped to $150,000 from $800,000 a year. “Let me just say this,” she said, “I’m still doing my job.”
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