printFeminists once aimed to unseat men, now they are actively engaged in queering them:
“Seven of the 18 women who are currently CEOs of Fortune 500 companies—including Xerox’s (XRX) Ursula Burns, PepsiCo’s (PEP) Indra Nooyi, and WellPoint’s (WLP) Angela Braly—have, or at some point have had, a stay-at-home husband. So do scores of female CEOs of smaller companies and women in other senior executive jobs. Others, like IBM’s (IBM) new CEO, Ginni Rometty, have spouses who dialed back their careers to become their powerful wives’ chief domestic officers.
This role reversal is occurring more and more as women edge past men at work. Women now fill a majority of jobs in the U.S., including 51.4 percent of managerial and professional positions, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Some 23 percent of wives now out-earn their husbands, according to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center. And this earnings trend is more dramatic among younger people. Women 30 and under make more money, on average, than their male counterparts in all but three of the largest cities in the U.S.”
Buried within the Bloomberg Business Week edifying report above is that the “recession” is, more than anything, a man recession:
“During the recent recession, three men lost their jobs for every woman. Many unemployed fathers, casualties of layoffs in manufacturing and finance, have ended up caring for their children full-time while their wives are the primary wage earners. The number of men in the U.S. who regularly care for children under age five increased to 32 percent in 2010 from 19 percent in 1988, according to Census figures. Among those fathers with preschool-age children, one in five served as the main caregiver.”
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Alas, women still complain when a poor bloke—who has put in more years and hours and happens to be more talented—earns a bit more. I dispelled distaff America’s claims of disadvantage long ago: “If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.”
On top of this, women keep getting help. When we bid our products to the government, or agencies that can buy on government bids, we are at a disadvantage, as a women-owned business is given priority along with veteran and minority owned. I’ve not tossed in the towel as of yet, but I can tell you it is more than frustrating as I do get to the point often enough where I say, “I don’t need this”.
My younger nephew (age 38 with 3 kids and an accountant) just got laid off. His wife (nurse) may now have to ramp up her hours big time to support the family.
As for being a “house husband” and having a rich wife supporting me – please sign me up!!
Frankly, if the Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies eat away my savings over the next 20 years, I might have to depend on my daughter (I don’t have much faith in Socialist Insecurity) – I don’t see a big job market for 80 year old men.