On wifedom
Historically, the woman was never considered a person; she was a barter for territory, a means for procreation, a worker to take care of his home, his children, his family, his creature comforts.
The legal status of the woman has much improved in most progressive societies, but...
Unfortunately, married life today is not yet truly equal. ..."his" marriage continues to be better than "hers". The data on marital satisfaction, garnered from surveys, interviews, and personal assessments, indicate that husbands have a more positive view of marriage than their wives, and that wives fall behind husbands on numerous measures of marital satisfaction. One consistent finding is that single men do worse than married men on almost all measures of mental (e.g. suicide, depression, nervous breakdown), whereas single women do better than married women on these same measures. All agree that wives experience greater stress than husbands from their career/family obligations, and that women put more time into caring for children, aged parents, and sick relatives.
... divorce produces a 27 percent decline in women's standard of living and 10 percent increase in that of men. This represents an almost 40 percent gap between what ex-wives and ex-husbands experience financially in the aftermath of a divorce.
6 comments:
i totally agree.
I find that after being married, women just age uncontrollably.
Because when you go home, there are things to be done and think of despite being off work
And most singapore men are jerks
My husband is ok, but I mean on the whole, marriage is shortening women's lifespan if you ask me
bunny - it's true working wives work inside and outside the home:(
men jerks are universal lah.
That does sound depressing. And to expect the wife to earn her own keep and to be taken care of is too much.
wildgoose - oh, tell me about depressing.
then, some men say that when the woman works and outsources some of the child rearing to a nanny, the man becomes an adulterer.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1975371,00.html
agree with dancingbunny, i think there was a study done that marriage shortens women's lifespan!
edpj - polls consistently show marriage favours the man. depressing, right?
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