Forbes Article on Working Women=Bad Marriages Debunked

AGAIN
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Here's the aricle, posted on DU a couple days ago:

http://www.forbes.com/home/2006/08/23/Marriage-Careers-Divorce_cx_mn_land.html?partner=ninemsn

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Here's where it's totally debunked (HOW many eons will we have to keep debunking this bullshit anyway?)

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The newest chimera's head comes from Forbes.com, in the form of an article last week by editor Michael Noer with a headline "Don't Marry Career Women" and subtitled "How do women, careers and marriage mix? Not well, say social scientists." The article was accompanied by a slide show purporting to show the "social science" on which the piece was based.

The way this story played out tells us a lot about the workings of today's media, the Internet and the 24-hour continuous news cycle. It may also herald a major new media power source: Femalebloggers Inc.
Forbes Retreated from Story

Forbes quickly took down the slide show. The solo Noer article was repackaged as a point-counterpoint commentary with Forbes staff writer Elizabeth Corcoran. Disagreeing.

Her commentary (obviously turned around on a dime) was anecdotal. So the result was a guy taking over the commanding heights of "science" and the woman offered a flimsier personal rebuttal.

Meanwhile, Slate media critic Jack Shafer weighed in, with a story headlined "Forbes' Female Trouble. So what if career women are divorces waiting to happen?"

Shafer rightly said the original Forbes piece was largely junk and noted "the Web site entries appear to be a holding pen for crap Noer couldn't shoehorn into his overstuffed thesis."

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Contradicting the Forbes Thesis

We have just completed a major new analysis of data from our study of dual-earner couples that was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. The data, not yet published, utterly contradict the Forbes thesis that men will be unhappy if they marry career women.

Our study--which looks at men's marital happiness--finds that among dual-earner couples, as she works more, his marital quality goes up. Why so? Probably for a number of reasons.

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One longitudinal study of 500 couples by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Janet Hyde found that for both men and women, the highest sexual satisfaction was among couples who both worked and experienced high rewards from their jobs. A good job, it seems, is good for your sex life.

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MUCH MORE

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2869

Well, maybe not a brazillion, but she does well enough. That last paragraph in the OP's post...not going to go into detail :evilgrin: but there is a LOT of truth in it.

...Well speaking from the women's side of it - yea, I know! It def makes a difference.