tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post115647758276982857..comments2024-03-27T09:08:50.883-07:00Comments on Bad Mom, Good Mom: Don't Marry Career Menbadmomgoodmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569728075698885020noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-1159033067049270202006-09-23T10:37:00.000-07:002006-09-23T10:37:00.000-07:00Two-socks, I agree with you about the rebuttal. I...Two-socks, I agree with you about the rebuttal. It looked like it was hastily thrown together without much research. For all I know, Forbes may have given her a 10 minute deadline.<BR/><BR/>There are people who have given this issue much thought. People who have done research that can be verified. However, those people are obviously not in the rolodexes of the lazy media (or the media on extremely short deadlines). <BR/><BR/>AAAS, the published a study about the status of women in science in their magazine, Science. Their study showed that 80% of women w/ PhDs in physical science were married to men with PhDs in physical science or engineering. (Or something like that. I can't remember how the<BR/><BR/>y made their distinctions.) 80% of the female scientists in their sample had the two-body problem. Don't tell me that was not considered worthy of follow-up work.badmomgoodmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11569728075698885020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-1156878854636744222006-08-29T12:14:00.000-07:002006-08-29T12:14:00.000-07:00I LOVED your post. I also have some experience li...I LOVED your post. I also have some experience living this - and I'd like to add that "marrying down" is something a lot more women should consider. <BR/><BR/>I'm a professional woman making 4-8x (depending on the bonus that year) the amount they listed as the threshold for "career girls" and my husband, who is smarter than me in many ways, is just flat out more talented and interested than I am in the domestic thing. <BR/><BR/>Right now he's been taking a one-year hiatus from outside paid work (he was in banking, for which the pay is notoriously low) and we've never been happier. <BR/><BR/>The author of the original article sounds bitter and too insecure and boring to keep a "career girl" interested in him for long. Grrr - people like him make me crazy. I've added you to Bloglines, keep up the great writing!Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11133547765222326544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-1156785293379067942006-08-28T10:14:00.000-07:002006-08-28T10:14:00.000-07:00(I have yet to discover a book about women with Ph...<I>(I have yet to discover a book about women with PhDs in science dealing with the two-body problem of marriage to a man with a PhD in science.)</I><BR/><BR/>Sadly, I think that the target audience would be too small to justify the research and publishing costs.Brenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11450393891493020636noreply@blogger.com