Women to Become the Breadwinners of the Future?

Sweet. Then we can get back to hockey, hunting and belching contests. Cheers for the interesting post.

That's a good question to ask Blue Crush regarding a potential rise in sexism, if only due to competition, and the continuing rise in job losses. 

Although in my city, there are many men who work in positions that in prior generations, those jobs would be considered as "women's works", such as nurses, secretaries, receptionists, and etc.

Hey Yellow Guitar, speak for yourself, you forgot Farting Contests with the kids, and Al Bundy Tv marathons, complete with Apache Attack Helicopters. Now that's entertaining.

I'm not surprised this is happening and I could see this being the trend for the next little while.

Historically, in hunter-gatherer groups, women actually provided more of the calories, and men provided more of the protein and the skins, horns and the stuff that involved more danger.

Perhaps men will spend more time with their sons now, reversing a six and seven generation Calvary for all us men whose father's father had abandoned them, sometimes while continuing to live in the same home. It all began in this bleak thing called "industrialization". You never saw your father unless he was tired and what he did became a mystery, vaguely evil, for his sons and daughters. Many sons actually resented their fathers' presence.

Remember the scene in "Goodbye Columbus" where the young couple walk out of the room and the actor from the TV series, "The Odd Couple" says, "And the way they look at us trying to make a living" or something to that effect.

This is exactly what accounts for the enormous number of screwed-up and broken men, and those of us who drag themselves around in a semi-stupor enlivened by alcohol and porno and sports mania.

One really good thing about the Internet I was telling my wife the other day: it has succeeded in making porno actually boring by being completely available all the time.

No mystery revelations of Love Temple Goddesses there. Just another lesson in farm life among primates!

Hey, and at least now the boys' fathers will be at home looking at those vids with their own sons. That is a damn statement about what is what nowadays!

Thank you for posting this!

Some professions - teaching for example - lend themselves to job-sharing. Mr. and Mrs. take alternate days or weeks while the kids are young, and have summers off together. This would be my ideal. Of course it entails living for things other than the pursuit of material gain. And obviously there are some professions that work better than others.

It's a fascinating trend. Be very interesting to see where it leads. Thanks for posting.

This is a very good post. I can certainly confirm that trend, even here in France, a latin country where men have always traditionally ruled the roost.

If it's happening, it's because it should be. The reasons are complex, but I see no reason why it should worry anyone, and it certainly doesn't worry me, as long as the world functions correctly. There is no pre-ordained prerogative for men to always be breadwinners.

Besides, if ever I married a high-powered carrer woman, it'd give me more time to write my music!!