A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide.
This flip in the economic order is inevitable, and Mundy demonstrates why it will also be a good thing for individuals and families. Both sexes will be free for the first time to make purely romantic choices—ones that have nothing to do with marriage as an economic partnership.
The Richer Sex demonstrates that a growing number of men will be attracted to women because of their success. Women will behave more like men sexually, and men will yearn more for intimate connections with their partners. Couples will choose who in the partnership must assume the responsibility of primary earner, and who gets to have the freedom of being the slow-track partner. Kids of stay-at-home dads and female breadwinners will love the role reversal, and the global marriage market will become one enormous and wild merry-go-round as men and women try to match expectations.
The first in-depth examination of this cataclysmic social revolution, The Richer Sex is one of those rare nonfiction books that will cause men and women to rethink how they are living their lives and what the changes around them mean.
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“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, journalist and author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
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“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"[Mundy] 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 at the Kinsey Institute“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.”
— Lisa Belkin, author of First, Do No Harm“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“A fascinating look at a trend that promises major social changes.”
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Liza Mundy is an award–winning journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four books, including Code Girls. She is a former staff writer for the Washington Post and writes for The Atlantic and Politico, among other publications.
Coleen Marlo is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator who has been nominated for an Audie Award twice, winning in 2011. She has been awarded three Listen-Up Awards from Publishers Weekly, an AudioFile Audiobook of the Year Award in 2011, and was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010 by Publishers Weekly. She is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Marlo is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology.