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In the U.S., being a married woman is correlated with a higher level of support for the Republican Party, and being single with the Democratic Party. Marriage seems to have a moderate effect on party affiliation among single people. As of 2004, 32 percent of married people called themselves Republicans while 31 percent said they were Democrats.
“You get lots of stories of getting tricked,” William Jankowiak, an anthropologist who has extensively studied love in folktales, told me. That’s why, for much of human history, the marriage historian Stephanie Coontz writes, people thought lifelong partnership was “too important” to be left up to love. Marriage was a business contract.
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Marriage has been criticized in its complicity of wives' economic dependence on husbands due to the gendered division of labour and that women's work typically pays less than men's work. Women are more likely to downgrade or drop out of their careers to assist in child rearing or when their career conflicts with their husband's.
Furthermore, the number of hours worked and the work spillover into family life are the most telling predictors of perceived imbalance in marriage. Keene and Quadagno found a greater likelihood of perceived imbalance when work duties caused men or women to miss a family event or make it difficult to maintain their home (2004).
Image credits: AllYourShenanigans #5. Sounds like my cousin. She married a really decent seeming guy. When they got back from honeymoon, he presented her with a handwritten list of things she must do.
My children have told me they don’t buy into the belief that you work hard for 50 years to enjoy maybe the last 10 years of your life. They aren’t going to build someone else’s dream.
They’re told that motherhood is the “most important job in the world” and face accusations of living “meaningless” lives. Percent of American women, ages 18 to 44, without children 40 50% 45 2014 2010 2006 2002 1998 1994 1990