The Richer Sex has incited a provocative national conversation about women’s rising earning power and its wide-ranging impact on relationships, families, marriage, and society. Will a majority of women someday out-earn their partners? Will this be a good thing, or not? How does this apply to your own life? Follow the links below–and the comments attached–to get a sense of how the conversation is trending. If you’d like to join it, comment or tweet to the hashtag #therichersex or email the author. Here is some of the coverage:
Print and Online Coverage
Time magazine cover story: “The Richer Sex.”
Time Ideas online: “Why Men are Attracted to High-Earning Women”
The New Yorker, “Taking Control”
Jezebel, “In the Future, Women Will Rule the World And Won’t Feel Shitty About It”
CNN/Fortune magazine: “Why Women are Out-Earning Men.”
The Daily Beast: “How Women Became the New Breadwinners”
Huffington Post: “Why Earning Power Equals Sexual Power for Women”
Daily Mail: “The Richer Sex”
Elle: “Women: The New Breadwinners”
Marie Claire: “Women Will Earn More than Men”
Publishers Weekly Q and A: “Sexuality, Independence and Economic Empowerment”
New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” selection, April 22, 2012
US News and World Report: “Why Women Will Rock the Economic Recovery” April 13, 2012
Television and Radio:
The Colbert Report
Bloggingheads TV with Robert Wright
CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood
WHYY–Philadelphia Public Radio
National Public Radio Weekend Edition with host Rachel Martin
CBS This Morning
CSPAN Washington Journal: “Women’s Earning Power”
CNN Your Bottom Line, with Christine Romans: “Wives to Out-Earn Husbands by 2030”
CNN Newsroom: “Women Becoming Main Breadwinners”
Fox News The Willis Report: “Rising Number of Wives Out-Earning Husbands”
National Public Radio, On Point with Tom Ashbrook
CSPAN-2 Book TV, Afterwords with April Ryan
American Public Media, Marketplace Money with Tess Vigeland
MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry Show
Public Radio Tulsa