The fire is still burning over the combustible commentary Forbes magazine executive editor Michael Noer wrote last week advising men not to marry career women. “Recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat and less likely to have children,” he wrote. “And, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it.”
Bowing to public pressure, Forbes reposted the commentary with an accompanying rebuttal. Elizabeth Corcoran of Forbes pointed out that “rather than rush to blame the woman, let’s not overlook the other key variable: What is the guy doing?” And she notes that in a good marriage, both partners have to learn to change and keep on adapting.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Corporations could do more to create a family friendly environment. Don’t get me wrong, I realize there is a bottom line, but recent studies show that the more a corporation does to try to allow for some family flexibility, the more productive their staff is.http://www.fordfound.org/newsroom/view_news_detail.cfm?news_index=73
Working women can have it all, a great home, a fantastic supportive husband, a great career…but it does take some work to acheive.
And you are very right, there is more to it than JUST the women. Isn’t it interesting that the study focused only on the woman’s role? I’m glad that Forbes chose to show both sides.
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Whhuuut!? Haven’t ya heard that a woman’s role is being subservient to her man and that the only real fulfilling place for a woman in society is to be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen!?
According to Terry Fox, it’s in the Bible!!! and if you don’t believe in tha Bible and hate America, then you can giiiit ooouuutt!
Doesn’t matter, with corporate offshoring, we’ll all be outta here very quickly… :)
Roo Haa,If you don’t love America then you can giiiit ooouuut!
hehehe
Who’s blaming women?Just sounds like statistics to me.
Which America? North, or South? Isn’t Mexico in North America too? LOL
I do, however, support encouraging employers to be more family-friendly toward the employees. I, for one, wouldn’t be able to really focus on the job at hand, if I couldn’t be sure that my kids were well taken care of.
Moms get a bad rap too often. People expect the women to raise the family and the man to bring home the bacon. Women have every right to have a career. Anyone who has to balance work and family will have the ocassional moment of anger and frustration. It certainly isn’t limited to women.
A former employer of mine was fond of saying when ever someone had family event that they needed to go to:If your spouse complains you are spending more time with your boss then them…Divorce them because they will be no good for your career!
There will always be another school play, wedding anniversary, birthday party just wait till next year.
A spouse should not complain about how much time you spend at work, they have no trouble spending the money you are making!
Note, I did say a FORMER EMPLOYER!After twenty hour days and missing some school musicals, we parted ways….moral:If you own the world, but have no time to enjoy it. You own no more then the poorest beggar!
This is the complaint of a very rich man who can afford to worry about such things.
He’s the kind of man who dumps the woman who gave him three kids and marries a trophy wife just a little older than his oldest child.
For the rest of us, working wives are not an option. They’re a necessity.
Check the statistics from the Labor Dept: two people working today (working an entire extra MONTH longer) can earn as much as one did back in 1972.
Thanks, Ronald Reagan . . .
trickle, trickle…..
Been married to two career women. They’re sometimes tough to live with…but a lot more interesting to be around.
Married to a career woman – 35 years and counting. Wouldn’t trade it for anything! Any man who is afraid of a successful career woman isn’t much of a man in my book.
Happily unmarried…I don’t have to worry about this crap in the first place, LOL!
Heh, right, Tracey.
“Trickle down” economics accurately describes the rich p*ssing on the rest of us . . .
10-4 Capn.
Hey, I just realized my wife is a career woman, yep. Uh-huh.
She’s a professional patient.Full-time!!
Cap’n,During the Reagan years, what trickled down all over me may have been golden, but it wasn’t spendable!
My husband spent 20 years climbing that corporate ladder just to have the company sold out from under him and the new management laid off everyone making over $30,000/year (which left some secretaries and clerical workers). It takes both the man and the woman working today to make ends meet – whether they are career people or just average working stiffs.
CR, I agree.And in my job I see people with the same experience and good college degrees starting over in the workforce at unskilled or semi-skilled jobs.People with engineering and business degrees.The world is getting flatter all the time.
Must have been some real losers. Every company in town is hiring engineers, in fact the one I work for will pay me 1000 dollars for every one I refer to them.
I heard on KNSS this morning that Boeing is laying off some more …
Generalizations usually always leave room for exceptions. In my case, I was married for many years to a non-career wife. After a divorce and now fairly recent marriage to a career woman is one of the best moves I have ever made in my life.
She understands when I have to work late, or get called in, as I reciprocate. She and I are economic partners. We are happier than either of us have ever been.
My point? Don’t believe every generalization….
Ben! Those were the ones that were told to us eariler this year. They said a total of 900 this year. This is the second wave of the layoffs, one more to come.
Joe – I guess that is why I need to spend millions to train Boeing’s workers for them. Unlike where I work – we have company provided training. It’s called free enterprise.
This is off topic, but regarding layoffs and jobs.
I would like to see a toyota plant, or for that matter any auto plant built in the Wichita area. We have the blue collar work force, and plenty of engineers in our workforce. This would be steady work, that I believe could help our city grow.
Thoughts please
Gary – how about high-speed rail? Using similar ‘metal-bending’ technologies as aircraft.