WE ARE SO BACK ... To 1954 Norms
Gender norms, baby!
About a year ago, I was having breakfast at some country club with a dude in my workout group. I wasn’t sure of the purpose of this breakfast, per se, but it was his treat — I ain’t no country club guy, generally — so I took it and we just bullshitted about life. It wasn’t half-bad. The funniest part of the conversation was, we were talking about marriage and all that. I asked him something like, “Does your wife work?” And he laughs, and says: “Good Lord, no.” I’m not entirely sure what this dude does — I think he helps private companies get sold, maybe? — but he has a nice house in the “right” neighborhood and belongs to a country club. All the conventional success trappings are in place.
As for the wife not working, that’s apparently pretty common among that set.
The “nut graf” of that piece from Fortune is:
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