The Battle Of The Sexes: When Women Out-Earn Men
NPR – March 18, 2012
In her new book, The Richer Sex, journalist and author Liza Mundy describes what may be the most profound change for American families in generations. She begins by focusing on the Hawkins family, who live just outside of Detroit…
Rising Number of Wives Outearning Their Husbands
The Willis Report – March 16, 2012
“The Richer Sex” author Liza Mundy on the factors leading to more women becoming the primary breadwinners and its impact on their relationships.
PW Picks: Week of March 19, 2012
Publishers Weekly – March 16, 2012
Sexuality, Independence, Economic Empowerment: A Q&A with Liza Mundy
Publishers Weekly – March 16, 2012
In her latest, journalist Liza Mundy (Michelle: A Biography, Everything Conceivable) looks at the rise of the “female breadwinner,” an emerging generation of women heads-of-household who make more than—or otherwise do without—the man of the house. Mundy spoke with the Tip Sheet about The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love, and Family, out from Simon & Schuster on March 20.
Women to be main bread-winners by 2030: Author Liza Mundy
CBS This Morning – March 16, 2012
Charlie Rose and Gayle King speak with author Liza Mundy about her book “The Richer Sex,” which paints a picture of women increasingly being the top earners in most U.S. households.
Why Men Are Attracted to High-Earning Women
Time Magazine – March 15, 2012
Today’s high-earning women are justly proud of their paychecks — I explore the rise of the female breadwinner in this week’s TIME cover story — but they still often feel that men will be intimidated rather than attracted to them as potential mates. They think their success will seem too threatening and be held against them. As a result, some women in the dating pool devise camouflage mechanisms. A young ob-gyn working in Pittsburgh tells men she meets that she “works at the hospital, taking care of patients” — subtly encouraging the idea that she’s a nurse, not a doctor. When a university vice president in south Texas was on the dating market, she would vaguely tell men she worked in the school’s administrative offices and avoid letting them walk her to her car for fear they would see her BMW. “I want them to give me a chance,” says the Pittsburgh doctor. “I want them to at least not walk away immediately.”