All posts tagged "Marriages"

[rebelmouse-image 24749245 original_size="190x339" expand=1]Round two on the NY Times struggling with the shocking! information that some men will actually allow themselves to be married to a woman with more education or income. Round one featured blatant denial---even though the research indicated that the number of marriages where women make more is rising, the Times ran a story that featured a bunch of single women swearing that they can't get a date because they're too smart or rich. I don't know if round two was run in reaction to a bunch of bloggers pointing out that stories about these marriages might actually be a better illustration of a story about these marriages, but that's what they did this time out. Subsequently, the story is much better. It's interesting to read about how people who buck the gender roles they were brought up with struggle sometimes not to lapse into roles they've decided don't work for them. It makes sense that many women unintentionally sabotage the situation by trying to exert control over their husbands' domestic choices, and how you really have to not do that if you want the situation to work. And that even well-meaning men have trouble shaking off thousands of cultural messages about how you're emasculated if your wife makes more money than you.

While the 18,000 same-sex marriages performed IN California were upheld as legal, there was no clarity for quite some time about whether the Golden State would recognize legal same-sex unions performed outside of its boundaries.