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A modern marriage of convenience.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04 		Format: Online - approximately 809 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A modern marriage of convenience.(Bites: brief notes on news & views from around the world)

Article Excerpt
For more than a century women have fought for access to education, equal pay, affordable childcare ... sorry, did we get that wrong? Apparently, contemporary women don't 'want it all' after all. According to Susan Shapiro Barash, professor of gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College and author of The New Wife, 'Generation Y doesn't really want what Generation X fought so hard for'. In the eyes of Barash's sample group of 500 wives, Gen-X is bearing the scars of a stressed-out existence--one characterised by 'exhaustion, haggard looks and divorce'. Now, readers are told, there is a better reason to go to university and get a prestigious degree: 'to land a fabulously successful man, who can provide her with a pretty...



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