Is this really the fate facing educated heterosexual women: either no marriage at all or a marriage with more housework and less sex? Nonsense. That may have been the case in the past, but no longer. For a woman seeking a satisfying relationship as well as a secure economic future, there has never been a better time to be or become highly educated… The most important predictor of marital happiness for a woman is not how much she looks up to her husband but how sensitive he is to her emotional cues and how willing he is to share the housework and child-care. And those traits are often easier to find in a low-key guy than a powerhouse.
— Stephanie Coontz and other voices in the ongoing discussion of women’s education and marriage. Coontz is the author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. (via curiositycounts)
(via curiositycounts)
