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Friday, August 25, 2006
 
At last a topic I am an expert on: women...

A recent article at Forbes.com provoked a storm of outrage from women, and surprisingly the editors removed the offending prose only to replace it with a poorly developed counterpoint alongside:
Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.

Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. While everyone knows that marriage can be stressful, recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. A recent study in Social Forces, a research journal, found that women--even those with a "feminist" outlook--are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner.
You can choose your own side here, but note that the original article was buttressed by a host of statistical references, the rebuttal used only anecdotes. I don't mind being called a Neanderthal, and I am open to other explanations for the reasons behind the complaints commonly ascribed to successful women today.

But in the absence of data to the contrary, my conclusion is having it all is simply overblown narcissism, on the part of both sexes. Good marriages do not conform to the fashions of the moment, they evolve from two people sacrificing much for each other only to find they have gained the world in exchange.
 
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