Young couples say no to marriage…
For these female partners, the benefits to marriage were slimmer — they would get an extra person to look after but not an extra provider. Since working-class women are often the main breadwinners, they were more likely to worry that marriages would be harder and costly to exit. So they preferred to regard their relationship as impermanent. And although working-class men have seen their real earnings drop over the years, studies have shown that they still hold rigid views on what men’s and women’s roles are in the home.
Basically, women are more afraid of marriage than men—sure turns all those Hollywood movies over on their heads.
(from Time)
Posted December 22, 2011 at 10:21pm
