Don't Marry a Career Woman!
Forbes has a tete-a-tete going because one of its columnists wrote an article about how a bunch of studies indicate that marriages are statistically more likely to fail if the woman has a career outside the home.
Probably to avoid all the flack, Forbes has a counterpoint article, written by a woman.
Reading over the two articles is a study in different argument styles. The anti-career-woman article references the studies and states, over and over again, that the conclusions are based on the statistical likelihod. "Odds are this, etc"
The woman's response is all based on HER marriage, which she brags is about to hit its 18th anniversary. That's all well and good, but it's still anecdotal.
When you don't have the facts on your side, you can always fall back on an anecdote.
You say 'More innocent peoples' lives are saved by guns, than are taken by criminals with guns?', well, I know a little boy who was shot by his brother!
Personally, I tend to side with the man on this. Generally, two careers, especially with kids, devolves into two people living together, who barely know each other. There's more stress, less time together, and more growing apart.
So read both articles. Decide for yourself.
Probably to avoid all the flack, Forbes has a counterpoint article, written by a woman.
Reading over the two articles is a study in different argument styles. The anti-career-woman article references the studies and states, over and over again, that the conclusions are based on the statistical likelihod. "Odds are this, etc"
The woman's response is all based on HER marriage, which she brags is about to hit its 18th anniversary. That's all well and good, but it's still anecdotal.
When you don't have the facts on your side, you can always fall back on an anecdote.
You say 'More innocent peoples' lives are saved by guns, than are taken by criminals with guns?', well, I know a little boy who was shot by his brother!
Personally, I tend to side with the man on this. Generally, two careers, especially with kids, devolves into two people living together, who barely know each other. There's more stress, less time together, and more growing apart.
So read both articles. Decide for yourself.
posted by Exador at
12:55 PM
6 Comments:
You actually read Forbes?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Plimco, at 10:48 AM
He's got to do something to pass the time while his back's out.
By
Aunt B, at 12:32 PM
I read everything.
I suppose you only limit yourself to what's on the BookPals reading list?
By
Exador, at 1:05 PM
Now, don't be dissing "Romeow & Drooliet". That sounds like a classic.
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Aunt B, at 1:11 PM
You mean, you can really call those phone numbers and hear A FREE STORY?! Sweet.
I'm actually reading _Gilead_ right now. It's this sad story of a preacher who is about to die and so he writes a book for his very young son so that he will know what kind of man his father was. Depressing.
I read novels, not magazines.
So there.
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Plimco, at 10:05 AM
I read it. I can't see why, in the studies he cites, that the "problem value" is the woman with a job. Seems like another common denominator is the conflict over the woman with the job. I'd like to see the study that compares two sorts of marriages -- those between men and women who agree on basic stuff about their marriage (like who should do what when it comes to housework, how much money is sufficient for the lifestyle the couple wishes to maintain, etc) and those who don't. Seems rather obvious to me that the big difficulty here is not the woman's employment, but the lack of consensus in the marriage about the answers to these basic questions about how one lives one's life in a twosome or moresome.
But that wouldn't make such polemical copy, would it? That would be a self-evident statement that placed shared responsibility for marital success or failure on all parties.
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bridgett, at 10:46 AM
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