summa contra Hewlett

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Tue Jun 11 13:05:03 PDT 2002


Creating a Lie Sylvia Ann Hewlett and the myth of the baby bust. Garance Franke-Ruta

"For high-achieving women, it might as well still be the Eisenhower era, which was the last time the nation as a whole had such a low rate of unmarried births. Because of high-achieving women's greater behavioral conservatism, it is marriage -- not degree of professional success -- that is the single largest determinant of whether they will have children."

[full piece at] http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/12/franke-ruta-g.html



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