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...love in the '80s. Men who cry. Women who compete. Fathers who nurture. Mothers who assert themselves. Shared feelings between equal partners. Equal shares of housework and orgasms. Two rewarding careers; two fulfilling love lives. At last, a peaceful resolution to the war between the sexes. Right...
...After putting in the kinds of long hours required to succeed in almost any profession, working mothers return home wondering how they will muster enough energy to give their children more than just a good-night kiss. It helps that more men are willing to lend a hand with housework and child rearing. Even so, men are far more likely than women to have it both ways, both flat-out career and kids. Anthropologist Patricia McBroom, who teaches women's studies at Rutgers, cites research that shows that 60% of executive women have no children, vs. only 3% of their...
...friendships and makes no future plans. Everything is for the moment, and associates, even those who gave him a hand, are betrayed for the sake of the bigger payoff, the easier deal. Only at home is life a chore. "You'll find that most wiseguy wives do their own housework, no matter how rich they are," Hill tells Pileggi, "because strangers can't be trusted to keep their mouths shut." Modern wiseguys who cannot keep their mouths shut are dealt with in a style that has not changed since the '30s. He describes a friend's fate: "Tommy used...
...problems are not confined to the young and affluent. Housework and watching the children are as much issues for traditional couples of moderate income who work simply to make ends meet. But the lack of job satisfaction sometimes exacerbates difficulties. Joy Johnson, a Chicago clinical therapist, cites the case of a woman who works at a factory, stuffing coupons into cereal boxes. Says Johnson: "There is nothing stimulating about it. At the end of the day she turns to her marriage to make up for what she didn't get during the day." Johnson says that the woman...
However, Americans can also learn from the patterns of Chinese relationships between people, Yang says, "In China, we're not so selfish as in America, we can take care of our neighbors, do housework for them..." Although Chinese are not as open as the Americans, "we Chinese are shy," Yang chuckles, but "our heart is very sincere...