by Hanna Rosin
a comprehensive 2006 study by the National Institute of Child Health: “The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development: Findings for Children up to Age 4 1/2 Years,” National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, January 2006. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/upload/seccyd_051206.pdf.
: points out that a father’s involvement is the critical factor: Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober, Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All (New York: Bantam Dell, 2009).
a massive Department of Education study, a child’s grades: “Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Schools,” National Center for Education Statistics 98-091, September 1997, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/fathers/.
memorable phrase “Don’t leave before you leave”: Sheryl Sandberg, “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders,” TED Talk, December 2010. http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html.
“There was no having it all”: Barbara Walters, interview with Jane Pauley in 2003, quoted in Pamela Paul, “For Anchorwomen, Family Is Part of the Job,” The New York Times, December 9, 2011.
as Fox’s Megyn Kelly did: Back from maternity leave on August 8, 2011, Megyn Kelly showed a photograph of her baby daughter, Yardley Evans, to viewers of America Live. Later on the show, she blasted guest Mike Gallagher for having criticized the length of her absence on his radio program, The Mike Gallagher Show.
Earlier she had squeezed her milk-enhanced boobs: Greg Veis, “She Reports, We Decided She’s Hot,” GQ, December 2010.
none had quite the wistful tone of this recent one: Amanda Foreman, “Diana’s Real Tragedy? She Married Too Young,” The Lady, June 28, 2011.
During that hiatus she wrote her best-selling book: Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles (New York: Broadway Books, 2007).
A recent McKinsey survey on women and the economy: Joanna Barsh and Lareina Yee, “Unlocking the Full Potential of Women in the U.S. Economy,” McKinsey & Company Special Report, April 2011. http://www.mckinsey.com/Client_Service/Organization/Latest_thinking/Unlocking_the_full_potential.
THE GOLD MISSES
ASIAN WOMEN TAKE OVER THE WORLD
These rules were enshrined: Rosa Kim, “The Legacy of Institutionalized Gender Inequality in South Korea: The Family Law,” Boston College Third World Law Journal 14, no. 1 (1994): 145–162.
Park Chung-hee began to rebuild Korea’s economy: See Sung-Hee Jwa, The Evolution of Large Corporations in Korea (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar, 2002).
thirteenth-largest economy in the world: “GDP (Purchasing Power Parity),” CIA World Factbook. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html.
private “cram” schools: Margaret Warner, “In Hypercompetitive South Korea, Pressures Mount on Young Pupils,” PBS NewsHour, January 21, 2011. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june11/koreaschools_01-21.html.
Korea climbed into the top five international rankings: “PISA 2009 Results: What Students Know and Can Do,” OECD Program for International Student Assessment. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/10/61/48852548.pdf.
made up 55 percent of those who passed: Choe Sang-Hun, “Korean Women Flock to Government,” The New York Times, March 1, 2010.
laws were revised: See Kay C. Lee, “Confucian Ethics, Judges, and Women: Divorce Under the Revised Korean Family Law,” Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1995): 479–503.
the government abolished: Sanghui Nam, “The Women’s Movement and the Transformation of the Family Law in South Korea. Interactions Between Local, National, and Global Structures,” European Journal of East Asian Studies 9, no. 1 (2010): 67–86.
about half of all women: Woojin Chung and Monica Das Gupta, “Why Is Son Preference Declining in South Korea? The Role of Development and Public Policy and the Implications for China and India,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March 29–31, 2007.
In Latin American countries: Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, and Laura E. Rumbley, “Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution,” Report Prepared for the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, 2009. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183168e.pdf.
Latin American companies had fewer women in senior positions: “Women in Senior Management: Still Not Enough,” Grant Thornton International Business Report, 2012. http://www.gti.org/files/ibr2012%20-%20women%20in%20senior%20management%20master.pdf.
In Spain, some men have found: Albert Esteve, Alberto Del Rey, and Clara Cortina, “Pathways to Family Formation of International Migrants in Spain,” XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference, October 1, 2009. http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=92078.
Among the ten countries: “World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision,” UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, April 2011. http://esa.un.org/wpp/Excel-Data/fertility.htm.
Divorce, still taboo in Asian society: See “Asia’s Lonely Hearts,” The Economist, August 20, 2011. http://www.economist.com/node/21526350.
King Kong girl (a term invented by French feminist Virginie Despentes): Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2010).
“All that glitters is not gold”: Ahn Mi Young, “Poverty May Await S. Korea’s Spendthrift ‘Gold Misses,’” The China Post, August 15, 2009.
I may be a good employee: Brian Lee, “The Disappearing, Desperate Working Mom,” Korea JoongAng Daily, February 25, 2010.
“obsessed with having to excel in everything”: “Alpha at Work, Omega at Life: Korea’s Superwomen,” The Chosunilbo, May 23, 2008. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/05/23/2008052361016.html.
A research team at Harvard Business School: Jordan Siegel, Lynn Pyun, and B. Y. Cheon, “Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide,” HBS Working Paper 11-011, 2010.
Sixty-one percent of single Japanese men: See “Single Japanese Men: Lonely in a Crowd?” The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2011.
ideal of the attractive: Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory (New York: Feminist Press, 2010) p. 11.
CONCLUSION
In 2009, sociologists Carla Shows and Naomi Gerstel: Carla Shows and Naomi Gerstel, “Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and EMTs,” Gender & Society 23, no. 2 (2009): 161–187.
“encouraging mockery of dads”: Seth Stevenson, “The Reign of the Doltish Dad,” Slate, March 26, 2012.
The men want children more: Nick McDermott, “Now It’s MEN Who Want to Settle Down Rather Than Women, According to New Research,” The Daily Mail, February 14, 2011.
“steeped in nostalgia”: Leo Braudy, From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (New York: Knopf, 2004; Vintage, 2005), p. 6.
story for Slate by an American father: Nathan Hegedus, “Snack Bags and a Regular Paycheck: The Happy Life of a Swedish Dad,” Slate, August 31, 2010.
The Japanese government has recently started: Felicity Hughes, “Ikumen: Raising New Father Figures in Japan,” The Japan Times, August 30, 2011.
“strong, almost hyper-romantic language to talk about love”: Amy Schalet, “Caring, Romantic American Boys,” The New York Times, April 6, 2012.
an anthropological study of the worksites: Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson, “An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms,” Research in Organizational Behavior 30, no. 30 (2010): 3–34.
INDEX
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.
Accounting, 108, 118, 124, 226
Addiction, 46
drug, 87, 88
Advanced Placement (AP) exams, 153
Afghanistan, 42
Affirmativ
e action, 146, 147
African-Americans, 53, 94, 101, 147, 155, 157, 180
college-educated, 89–90, 94
in manufacturing jobs, 88
Aggression, 170
female, 173, 176, 183, 185–87, 189
male, 174–76
Alabama, 91–92, 110. See also specific cities, counties, and towns
Alabama, University of, Huntsville, 178
Alexander City (Alabama), 79–88, 95, 97–106
Allen, Woody, 190
Alvin Ho (Look), 190
American Council on Education, 155
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 119
American Psycho (Ellis), 173
Anal sex, 17, 27, 42, 44
Anderson, Sherwood, 128
Andrews, Steven and Sarah, 70–77
Apatow, Judd, 56, 138
Apple, William S., 134
Arab Spring, 151
Argentina, 28, 150
Ark & Pancom, 244
Armstrong, Elizabeth, 22–25
Arnett, Will, 265
Arthur Colton Company, 127–28
Asian Debate Institute, 231
Ask For It (Babcock and Laschever), 209
Atlanta (Georgia), 81
Atlantic magazine, 14, 160, 221
Attractiveness, 30, 131, 256
Auburn (Alabama), 103, 106–10
Auburn University, 97, 105, 106, 108
Economic & Community Development Institute, 86
Austen, Jane, 114
Australia, 150, 166, 167, 245
Automatic Pill Making Machines, 127–28
Auto industry, 87
Korean, 111, 204, 234, 250
Autor, David, 87, 125
Babcock, Linda, 207–9
Babies, sex preference for, 12–14
Bahrain, 150
Bangalore, 193
Baron-Cohen, Simon, 174, 262
Baum, Sandy, 158
Baumbach, Noah, 56
Baumeister, Roy, 37, 41, 42
Beauty premium. See Erotic capital
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1, 11
Belarus, 237
Belgium, 55
Bell Jar, The (Plath), 50
Bem Sex Role Inventory, 187
Bem test, 9, 16
Bend It Like Beckham (movie), 189
Benjamin Russell High School, 80, 82, 95, 99–102, 105, 106
Berkshire Hathaway, 81
Best Buy, 226
Better Angels of Our Nature, The (Pinker), 174–75
Beyoncé, 181, 190
Bible, 75, 97
Proverbs, 98
Bieber, Justin, 267
Big Sort, The (Bishop), 87
Birmingham (Alabama), 104
Bishop, Amy, 178
Bishop, Bill, 87
Black Widows of Chechnya, 184
Blue-collar jobs, 57. See also Working class
Bobbitt, Lorena, 178
Bogle, Kathleen, 20–21
Boomerang (Lewis), 202
Borghans, Lex, 135
Boushey, Heather, 49, 124
Bowles, Hannah Riley, 211–15
Brain difference, 159–60, 174, 262
cultural factors in, 40–41, 166
Braudy, Leo, 267
Brazil, 6, 81, 151, 237
Breadwinner wives, 7, 48–77, 265
and domestic responsibilities, 53–55, 71–77
media representations of, 55–57
and impacts of male job loss, 3, 61–63
versus traditional gender role expectations, 63–70
Breast-feeding, 75, 221
Briggs & Stratton, 108–9
Brin, Sergey, 194
Bristol-Myers Squibb, 172
Britain. See United Kingdom
Brizendine, Louann, 262
Brodsky, Alexandra, 18
Brooks, David, 86
Brown, Tina, 219, 227–29
Browne, Kingsley, 174
Brzezinski, Mika, 214
Buchmann, Claudia, 159
Buddhism, 45
Burger King, 179
Burns, James MacGregor, 199
Burress, Ashley, 157
Burt, Laura, 138
Bush, George W., 148
Business schools, 26–33, 36, 108, 216, 219, 275. See also specific universities
Butler, Judith, 60
California, 92, 251. See also Silicon Valley
California, University of, 156
Davis, 201
San Diego, 188
Cambridge University, 174
Canadian Medical Association, 68
Capone, Al, 178
Carbone, June, 88
Carnegie Mellon University, 207–8
Carroll, Jason Michael, 95
Carter, Jimmy, 92
Cassidy, Sukhinder Singh, 226
Census Bureau, U.S., 92, 153
Center for American Progress, 49, 124
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 20
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 19, 200
Central California Research Laboratories, 170
Chasing Stars (Groysberg), 203
Cheers (television show), 56
Chicago, University of, 185, 251
Business School, 216, 218
Chicopee (Massachusetts), 179
Child care, 14, 54, 218, 221–22, 224, 242, 264
government options for, 244
jobs in, 9, 118, 124
China, 5, 166
China Post, The, 239
Christians, 97
evangelical, 92, 284n
Chung, James, 107
Chung, Vivien, 251–52
Citigroup, 205
Civil rights, 132, 148
Civil Rights Commission, U.S., 146
Civil War, 128
Clerical schools, 120, 130
Clovis (California), 169
Coal (television show), 87
Cognitive dissonance, 33
Cohen, Bernard, 68
Cold War, 152
Colorado, 170
Colombia, 55, 81, 237
Color Me Flo (Kennedy), 65
Columbia University, 119
Business School, 200
Comedy Central, 126–27, 143
Competition, 52, 174, 244
academic, in Korea, 232–33
for college admissions, 160
in traditional societies, 174, 188–89
Confucianism, 233, 234, 257
Congress, U.S., 205
Cookie magazine, 11
Coontz, Stephanie, 51
Cooper, Hannah, 113–17, 119–20, 123–24, 126–27, 130, 141–43
Cornwell, Patricia, 176
Cosby, Bill, 90
Cosmopolitan magazine, 31, 40
Creal, Cameron, 156
Creative Korea party, 249
Crime, violent, 175–85
against women, decline in, 19, 176, 182
committed by women, 176–78, 184–85
Daily Beast, The, 219, 228
“Dancing on My Own” (song), 44
Dating sites, 52, 255
Daum, Meghan, 31
Delahunty, Jennifer, 158–59
Deloitte Consulting, 141, 226
Delta Kappa Epsilon, 17
Democratic Party, 148
Denney, Leandra, 88
Denny’s, 179
Despentes, Virginie, 238, 256
Diana Chronicles, The (Brown), 228
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Kinney), 190
DiPrete, Thomas A., 159
Divided Labours (Browne), 174
Divorce, 39–40, 49, 66–68, 94, 98, 101, 269
in Asia, 6, 238, 255
of breadwinner wives and unemployed husbands, 51, 81–82
and career opportunities for women, 152–53, 157
custody of children after, 125
financial impacts of, 68, 91, 283n
murder as alternative to, 170, 172
regional differences in rates of, 92
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Doctors, female, 59, 117, 132, 255–56
specialties chosen by, 118, 140
Domestic violence, 14, 170, 183
Drew, Ina, 202–3
Druggists’ Bulletin, 129
Drug Topics magazine, 131
Duke University, 43
Dunham, Lena, 43
Dushane, Melodi, 179
eBay, 224
Ebony magazine, 89
Economist, The, 253
Ecuador, 55
Edge City (Garreau), 133
Edin, Kathryn, 92–93
Education Department, U.S., 161, 224
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 41, 63
Eliot, George, 163
Eliot, Lise, 161, 174
Ellis, Bret Easton, 173
El-Scari, Mustafaa, 89–90
Empowerment, 30, 38, 45, 190
EMTs, 264
Engineers, 13, 54, 73, 80, 108, 150, 196
England, Paula, 24–25
Enlightened Power (Gergen), 199
Ericsson, Ronald, 11–13
Ernst & Young, 226
Erotic capital, 30, 37–38
Esteve, Albert, 237–38
Evans, Harry, 228
Evans, Jenelle, 179
Ewha University, 232–33, 239
Facebook, 181, 195, 197, 215, 224, 225, 230
Faludi, Susan, 9
Farber, Henry, 86
Farrell, Warren, 69, 72
Fast-food restaurants, female violence in, 179
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 176
Fels, Anna, 217
Feminism, 11, 12, 14–15, 21, 50, 60, 65–66, 75–76, 155, 182, 233
accusations against, 160
career opportunities and, 115, 124, 129, 152, 198, 215, 219
changing cultural norms in response to, 175
erotic capital and, 30
in Iceland, 202
motherhood and, 75–76, 93, 125
second-wave, 58
sexual norms and, 37–38, 41
Title IX complaints filed by, 17
in views of murders by women, 178
Financial planning, 118
Fiorina, Carly, 219
Fisher, Helen, 266
Flaubert, Gustave, 118
Flexibility, workplace, 140
Florida, Lottery, winners in, 94
Florida State University, 42
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 12
Food preparation, 118, 124
Forbes magazine, 205
Forensic pathology, 118
Fort Lauderdale (Florida), 81, 180
Fortune 500 companies, 81, 198
Fortune magazine, 205
Fox Television, 225
France, 117, 237, 251, 252