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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have many friends like this. The woman’s career soared while the husband’s did not.

I’m the opposite. I was the go getter career woman. I married a fellow ambitious man. I was probably more ambitious. Two big jobs weren’t working for our family dynamic so we decided that it would be best if I stayed home.

[b]It is more socially acceptable for the man’s career to soar while wife steps back or down[/b]. Such a double standard for men.[/quote]

No longer true in DC/inside beltway households.  Of the several "UMC millennial couples with young kids" households on my Chevy Chase block, it's the [u]women[/u] who are crushing it at age 40. The men have daddy-tracked jobs (or no job anymore, thanks Voight!) and do all the school pickups, dog walks, playground runs. If there's a black Escalade idling out front at 4:30 am on a weekday, waiting to whisk someone to the airport, it's the woman who's going to the director's meeting while the man stays back and walks the 'doodle to pick up the kids.

There's six such households on my little street alone. No, 7.

I'd say "yay! egalitarian!" except there are zero millenial households where the reverse is true.  (gen X, yes). Makes me concerned there's a broader trend in in underemployed, overeducated males.[/quote]

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