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Good article about the Yale ladies.
These future moms betray a startling combination of naivete and privilege. To plot this kind of future, a woman has to have access to a pool of wealthy potential husbands, she has to stay married at a time when half of marriages end in divorce, and she has to ignore the history of the women's movement. (Homework assignment: research Betty Friedan's motivation for writing "The Feminine Mystique").
It's also helpful if she ignores the following: The number of dual-working couples is on the rise. Ditto, the number of women in the work force.
The one number that's dwindling? Households supported by one adult, who in the current fantasy would be the extremely well-paid husband. Fewer than 25% of American households survive on one paycheck, and in a few years that number will decline to fewer than 20%.
If the undergrads still believe they can beat the odds, they must've slept through statistics. Or worse, they think they're above the fray. They seem to have learned one lesson - I'm in it for me - far too well, confusing personal comfort with social progress.
These future moms betray a startling combination of naivete and privilege. To plot this kind of future, a woman has to have access to a pool of wealthy potential husbands, she has to stay married at a time when half of marriages end in divorce, and she has to ignore the history of the women's movement. (Homework assignment: research Betty Friedan's motivation for writing "The Feminine Mystique").
It's also helpful if she ignores the following: The number of dual-working couples is on the rise. Ditto, the number of women in the work force.
The one number that's dwindling? Households supported by one adult, who in the current fantasy would be the extremely well-paid husband. Fewer than 25% of American households survive on one paycheck, and in a few years that number will decline to fewer than 20%.
If the undergrads still believe they can beat the odds, they must've slept through statistics. Or worse, they think they're above the fray. They seem to have learned one lesson - I'm in it for me - far too well, confusing personal comfort with social progress.