(2003-05-19) Family Income

The cover story of News Week a couple issues ago was She Works, He Doesn't about Two Income Family-s who've become One Income Family-s due to the current recession, but now the man is home. Many such couples have simply decided that no matter how much lip service companies pay to "family friendly" policies, it's simply not possible to integrate two fast-track careers and kids without huge sacrifices. So they do a cold-eyed calculation, measuring the size and upside potential of each parent's paycheck, and opting to keep whoever's is larger. For the highest-achieving women, the trend is striking. Last fall Fortune reported that more than one third of its "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" have a stay-at-home man (it dubbed them "trophy husbands"). But this trend reaches women far below the executive-vice-president rank.

• Or is this another symptom of a bigger issue of men failing to fit in with Civilization? "Girls are better able to deliver in terms of what modern society requires of people - paying attention, abiding by rules, being verbally competent, and dealing with interpersonal relationships in offices," says James Garbarino, a professor of human development at Cornell University. (Educating Kids)

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