The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy
The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy
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The Richer Sex
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family

Author: Liza Mundy

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/20/2012

Synopsis

A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide.

This flip in the economic order is inevitable, and Mundy demonstrates why it will also be a good thing for individuals and families. Both sexes will be free for the first time to make purely romantic choices—ones that have nothing to do with marriage as an economic partnership.

The Richer Sex demonstrates that a growing number of men will be attracted to women because of their success. Women will behave more like men sexually, and men will yearn more for intimate connections with their partners. Couples will choose who in the partnership must assume the responsibility of primary earner, and who gets to have the freedom of being the slow-track partner. Kids of stay-at-home dads and female breadwinners will love the role reversal, and the global marriage market will become one enormous and wild merry-go-round as men and women try to match expectations.

The first in-depth examination of this cataclysmic social revolution, The Richer Sex is one of those rare nonfiction books that will cause men and women to rethink how they are living their lives and what the changes around them mean.

About Liza Mundy

Liza Mundy is a staff writer at The Washington Post and the bestselling author of Michelle: A Biography and Everything Conceivable, among other works. She received her AB degree from Princeton University, and earned an MA in English literature at the University of Virginia, where she also taught writing. She has won awards for essays, profiles, and science writing from the Sunday Magazine Editors Association, the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, The Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. She was a 2003 Kaiser Foundation Media Fellow, and a 2005 Media Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Liza lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Doug on December 17, 2014

Almost 40% of US working wives now outearn their husbands. Washington Post reporter Liza Mundy argues that “the Big Flip” in gender roles “is just around the corner” in her new book: The Richer Sex. Soon “women, not men, will become the top earners in households" and that will transform the dyna......more

Goodreads review by Carly on April 04, 2012

3.5 stars. This is a fascinating account of male/female relations and how women are currently out earning men in some areas and are on track to surpass them entirely in the near future. Mundy looks at the historical background (for centuries men were the breadwinners and women made less money), the......more

Goodreads review by Lawrence on March 19, 2024

(Audible) A bit dated, but still worthwhile audiobook. I recognize that women dominate academic spaces after high school, because as the author points out “college is built for the female brain.” However, I disagree that the answer for women that do not want to marry down is to find a man, and “make......more

Goodreads review by Lindy on April 14, 2024

This was a book written largely based on academic research and referencing economic trends from when it was written - 2012. So, take that into account. But I recently interviewed Liza and in my research I noted this, which I hadn't come across before, and figured it was worth checking out. As you wo......more

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