The richer sex : how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love, and family / Liza Mundy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mundy, Liza, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Employment--Social aspects.

Women--Employment.

United States.

Social conditions.

Women--Employment--Social aspects--United States.

Work and family--United States.

Work and family.

Physical Description:

viii, 327 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2012]

Summary:

A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. Journalist Liza Mundy takes us to the frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume the responsibility of primary earner and who gets the freedom of being the slow track partner. With more men choosing to stay home, Mundy shows how that lifestyle has achieved a higher status, and the ways males have found to recover their masculinity. And the revolution is global: Mundy takes us from Japan to Denmark to show how both sexes are adapting as the marriage market has turned into a giant free-for-all, with men and women at different stages of this transformation finding partners who match their expectations.--From publisher description.

Contents:

The new providers

The bargain

The overtaking

The new rules of mating

Competition and undermining

Let go, and lexapro

Stigma and female earning

Sex and the self-sufficient girl

Desirable women

The new world of marriage choices

The view from abroad

Our female future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439197714

1439197717

9781439197738

1439197733

OCLC:

757486223