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Author Mundy, Liza, 1960-

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

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2012]
©2012

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  305.3 M923    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.4097 MUNDY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.409 M92    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  305.42 MUNDY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.42 MU    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Description viii, 327 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women -- Employment -- Social aspects -- United States.
Work and family -- United States.
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