Don not Marry (or Date) A Career Woman

Posted by on September 7, 2006 Leave a comment (5) Go to comments

Forbes.com published a very controversial story on 22 August by editor Michael Noer that provoked a heated response from both outside and inside our building. Elizabeth Corcoran, a member of our Silicon Valley bureau and principal author of the magazine’s current cover story on robots, sent in this rebuttal.

This article was so controversial the publisher and editor-in-chief, Steve Forbes, issued a public apology.

Anyway here’s some of the reasons found by social scientists as strong negatives to consider before marrying (or dating) a career woman:

  • They will be unhappy if they make more than you
  • Women’s work hours increase divorce rate (increase in men’s have no effect)
  • She’s more likely to have an affair with co-worker
  • Those with graduate degrees 1.75 times more likely to cheat

Rest assured I’ve had my fair share of experience with career women. Maybe the most frustrating experiences have been when my cousins or friends try to “fix me up” with a female friend of theirs. Whenever these women are career women, they are the most difficult people to pin down just to meet and get to know them…I have better things to do with my time rather then wait around for them.

Do not waste your time with this type of women. The question I want you to ask yourself: DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT (SUCCESSFUL) OR DO YOU WANNA BE HAPPY?

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  • Diana

    But career women are strong, independent and able to pay the bills. Would you like be with a woman who cannot pay the bills and take all the responsibility?

  • http://ramonthomas.com Ramon Thomas

    No! I don’t need a woman to pay the bills, I want to have fun, lots of sex and generally a good time. Not debate who pays what bills.

  • http://twanjikalula.tripod.com Twanji Kalula

    While this may or may not have some truth, I think that any woman who gets married without having some career or career option is an idiot. Given the state of marriage, which can be here today and gone tomorrow, anyone who cannot independently support themselves is open to being left penniless after divorce or death or even open to staying in an abusive relationship.
    As a guy, I am telling the ladies out there to have the ability to support yourself. You don’t have to aggressively climb the corporate ladder, but have options. This marry-my-high-school-sweetheart-after-graduation idea is so last century. Don’t find yourself in a situation where you need a man to support you!

  • http://www.mostinnermost.com spiritual

    tsh, tsh… I agree with Twanji. Ramon, realise that women are starting to take charge of their lives mainly because men who normally want lots of sex generally loose interest in having just one woman – then they are left without a career after you dump them. Guys that would agree with you, Ramon, have a very self serving attitude and need to wake up an smell the fresh roses – it’s 2006 not 1850.

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