As women gain collective rights, and especially as men accept their changed roles, many disruptive effects of family
change are ameliorated. In US, divorce rates for well-educated women are now much lower than for less-educated women, and women with good jobs or who have completed college are more likely than more traditional women to be married at age 35. Today, going to work decreases the chance of divorce. In families where the wife is employed longer, men tend to do more and better child-care, with measurable payoffs in child outcomes.
Of course, marriage will never again be as stable or predictable as when women lacked alternatives. But change has far less negative consequences when women have access to economic rights than when they don’t. In the Nordic countries, out-of-wedlock births are much higher than in US, but children of single mothers are much less likely to experience poverty, and spend more time on average with both biological parents, because cohabitation there is more stable than in many American marriages....Continue
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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change are ameliorated. In US, divorce rates for well-educated women are now much lower than for less-educated women, and women with good jobs or who have completed college are more likely than more traditional women to be married at age 35. Today, going to work decreases the chance of divorce. In families where the wife is employed longer, men tend to do more and better child-care, with measurable payoffs in child outcomes.Of course, marriage will never again be as stable or predictable as when women lacked alternatives. But change has far less negative consequences when women have access to economic rights than when they don’t. In the Nordic countries, out-of-wedlock births are much higher than in US, but children of single mothers are much less likely to experience poverty, and spend more time on average with both biological parents, because cohabitation there is more stable than in many American marriages....Continue
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
Read also :-
