The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Our Culture

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A revolution is underway: within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men.

In The Richer Sex, bestselling author and Washington Post writer Liza Mundy takes us to the exciting frontier of a new economic order, showing why more households will be supported by women than by men within a generation and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. She goes deep inside the lives of cutting-edge couples to paint a picture of how dating, sex, marriage, and home life are changing. She also investigates all the new, sometimes highly personal debates born in a society that can no longer assume the male is the primary breadwinner. This wild ride into the future, grounded in Mundys peerless journalism, will cause women and men of all generations to rethink the meaning of this social upheaval.

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"A fascinating look at a trend that promises major social changes." --"Booklist"
"Ambitious . . . Separating "The Richer Sex" from earlier manifestos and exposes about women . . . is Mundy's fresh reporting and the reams of new social science research she summarizes to make her case." --Rachel Shteir, "The New York Times Book Review"
"It is an exciting time to witness changing standards in family life: women in charge, men raising babies, both longing for passion and affection. In "The Richer Sex", Liza Mundy asks the poignant questions of how and why these changes are occurring. She deftly examines who wins, who loses, and who is left on the battlefields of love, sex, and money." --Dr. Justin R. Garcia, author and Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
"Liza Mundy has done something remarkable: she has taken all the major social and economic threads of the past decade, and woven them into a tapestry that explains, well . . . everything. About love, and sex, and family, and work, and the past and the future, and men and women and children. And she has not only written a book that's important, but also one that's a great read." --Lisa Belkin, author of "First, Do No Harm "and "Life's Work"
"Liza Mundy has written a visionary, optimistic, inspiring book about the future of gender relations in America. She writes with verve, rigor and a keen sense for the unexpected. This is the rare book about the future that not only tells you where we're headed by why we should want to arrive." --Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and president of the New America Foundation
"This thought-provoking exploration of the way women's expanding roles in the workplace is changing their lives at home is sure to create a stir. . . . Readable and poignant, Mundy's latest is the perfect starting-point for this timely conversation." --"Publishers Weekly"
"Will the world change once women make up the majority of breadwinners It assuredly will, and Liza Mundy gives us a fascinating advance report on the sweeping transformations--in romance, economics, politics and family life--headed our way. They will make all our lives better, and Mundy is the first to bring us the good news." --Annie Murphy Paul, author of "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives"

Author Bio

Liza Mundy is the bestselling author of Michelle: A Biography and Everything Conceivable. A longtime award-winning reporter for The Washington Post, she is currently a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.