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...jobs and applying their skills, education, and talent to advance their husbands’ careers, can achieve greater financial security for their families than with two incomes. Marketed to business savvy career women who desire a “slower-paced, more graceful, family oriented life,” Basham??s book outlines a plan wherein wives transform into indispensable career partners for their husbands by mentoring, advising, and pushing them to get ahead...
...Basham??s reasoning—that women don’t want careers anyway—draws mainly on opinion polling and anecdotal evidence: “Ask a group of mothers if they would continue to work full-time if they didn’t have to and the answer will overwhelmingly come back ‘No!’,” she writes. Despite the fact that this statement is a near truism (wouldn’t the majority of people cut back on work if their monetary circumstances permitted?), Basham proceeds to cite...
...However, given the notorious inaccuracy of polling data, the answer is not nearly so simple. The wording and framing of the survey question can have a decisive impact on the results, so much so that alternative polls demonstrate the exact opposite of Basham??s findings: namely, that the majority of high-achieving males would prefer to stay at home if money allowed and that most mothers married to men with annual earnings of over $120,000 remain in the workforce, in spite of their financial freedom. More damagingly, Basham confuses the distinction between correlation and causation: women?...
...Beyond her absolute reliance on dubious data, Basham??s argument obfuscates the socioeconomic structures that render her step by step plan unfeasible for the bulk of American families. When Basham alludes to a “group of mothers,” she would be more truthful to reference a “group of white upper middle class mothers with equally well-to-do husbands.” Indeed, the women that Basham upholds as paradigms of her “career partner” include the wife of the founder of Amazon.com and the wife...
...pervasive economic disadvantage, have fewer personal assets and marketable skills to leverage when times turn hard. With unemployment among women rising faster, and women’s wages falling more quickly, than those of their male counterparts, it is now more important than ever that women reject Basham??s advice—not only for the sake of leading their own fulfilling lives, but also to ensure the financial safety of their families...
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