Forbes Editorial Ticks Off Working Women

Forbes editor Michael Noer just recently wrote an editorial entitled "Don't Marry a Career Woman," where he illustrates for males what difficulties they'll face if they marry such a woman. This hasn't gone over too well with the ladies (such a shocker, isn't it?).

He wrote, "If they do have kids, they're more likely to be unhappy about it. ... The more successful she is, the more likely she is to grow dissatisfied with you."

Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University stated on "Good Morning America," "Better educated women are going to [have] more alternatives, and so they're going to be more likely to walk out of a bad marriage. They're not going to be any more likely to run out on a good marriage."

Noer has since defended his editorial, saying, "The piece was intended to be part academic and part humorous. Instead, it profoundly offended the hardworking career women everywhere."

Forbes has since placed an editorial written by a female in attempt to lessen the attacks and balance its perspective, titled, "Don't Marry a Lazy Man." Good try, but not marrying a career woman and a lazy man are completely different. Many women have worked (no pun intended) extremely hard, have battled uphill, and overcome many obstacles in order to get to where they are today. What's it take to be lazy? Nothing. Men have not had to work uphill in order to be lazy. Unlike women, men haven't had to worry about opportunity when it comes to work. Writing an editorial on why a woman shouldn't marry a lazy man would be like writing an editorial on why a man shouldn't marry an obsessive woman. Nice try Forbes, but I'm not buying the whole "part academic and part humorous" bit.

Some ladies should write an editorial on reasons why women shouldn't marry Michael Noer and claim that it was mean to be "part academic and part humorous." I wonder if he'd like that.

Link:

http://articles.news.aol.com/business/_a/dont-marry-a-woman-with-a-career/20060826092209990011?ncid=NWS00010000000001