I am getting worked up. I decided to stop reading this article and formulate a few thoughts.
I find it infuriating that some asinine writer thinks that "career girls" are less likely to have a happy marriage. In my opinion he can shove his empirical evidence up his ass! Maybe the "low quality of marriage" comes from dicks like him who expect their wives to give up their goals and "hunker down to raise the kids". Are women the only ones who experienced the last 50 years? This article gives me the strangest sensation that I have gone back in time.
I find it infuriating that some asinine writer thinks that "career girls" are less likely to have a happy marriage. In my opinion he can shove his empirical evidence up his ass! Maybe the "low quality of marriage" comes from dicks like him who expect their wives to give up their goals and "hunker down to raise the kids". Are women the only ones who experienced the last 50 years? This article gives me the strangest sensation that I have gone back in time.
I encourage everyone to read it and it's counter-point (which I found very amusing) but in cause you're a busy career girl like I am, here are some examples of why I am so irritated ...
"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."..." If a host of studies are to be believed, marrying these women is asking for trouble."
"Gary S. Becker argued that when the labor specialization in a marriage decreases--if, for example, both spouses have careers--the overall value of the marriage is lower for both partners because less of the total needed work is getting done, making life harder for both partners and divorce more likely. And, indeed, empirical studies have concluded just that."
"John H. Johnson examined data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and concluded that gender has a significant influence on the relationship between work hours and increases in the probability of divorce. Women's work hours consistently increase divorce, whereas increases in men's work hours often have no statistical effect."
"The other reason a career can hurt a marriage will be obvious to anyone who has seen their mate run off with a co-worker: When your spouse works outside the home, chances increase they'll meet someone they like more than you. "The work environment provides a host of potential partners."
"According to a wide-ranging review of the published literature, highly educated people are more likely to have had extra-marital sex (those with graduate degrees are 1.75 more likely to have cheated than those with high school diplomas.)"..."And if the cheating leads to divorce, you're really in trouble. Divorce has been positively correlated with higher rates of alcoholism, clinical depression and suicide. Other studies have associated divorce with increased rates of cancer, stroke, and sexually-transmitted disease."..." In other words, a good marriage is associated with a higher income, a longer, healthier life and better-adjusted kids."