Poor Economy Slams Brakes on Women in Workplace, published in today’s Times, provides twenty-somethings reason enough to go straight to grad school and skip that whole ‘real world’ thing. Then upon graduating, maybe getting a Ph. D, marrying and quickly having children?
Is this recession big enough to displace women from the workplace, and get them [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘traditional family model’
July 21, 2008
As if the thought of graduating wasn’t scary enough….
April 22, 2008
Love Food?
Can’t help but shouting out a friend and her marvelous, inventive cooking! Since we read about food in our Chick Lit novels, how about learning about some deliciousness in real life! Check this out!
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/fooddrink/s_562962.html
April 8, 2008
A Good Man Is Hard to Buy
I love chicklit, Lifetime, pink and all things girly– secret: i’ve stumbled upon many an alpha male in their dorm rooms watching a Lifetime drama–, so it was no surprise to me that I found the inspiration for this post while I was browsing through the Oxygen network’s website and stumbled upon the promo for [...]
March 26, 2008
I don’t think so…
One thing that stood out to me in this book was the plethora of references to a traditional family model where the wife is in charge of the domestic realm and the husband is in charge of finances. In many ways, this model makes the wife dependant on her husband. I can’t tell if Bushnell [...]