The Stay at Home Dad

Shawnia Drew

Professor Fary

English 101

9 February 2010

The Stay at Home Dad

It was a cold and snowy day on February 9, 2010. A mother of three was outside

clearing off the snow of the family vehicle to venture off for a long day at work, while

the father remained in the family home cooking a hot meal for the children. Over the last

couple of decades wives have been catching up and surpassing their husbands in income.

According to the National Bureau of Labor 18 percent of wives earned more than their

husbands in 1987, since 2006 that number has grown by 26 percent. Although money is

the driving force in most families decisions about which parent stays at home. Society is

becoming more acceptable of stay at home dads due to the fact that women are excelling

in the work force, men’s jobs are fading and economic reasons.

Women are excelling in the workforce due to the fact that more women than men

attend (54 percent) and graduate from college than in years past. In 1967 men

outnumbered women 58-42 percent. Since then the male domination of the labor pool has

shrunk to as little as 51 percent, according to a New York Times article. Just to name a

few of some women in powerful positions are Indra Nooyi, president and CEO of

PepsiCo; Ursula Burns, president of Xerox and Anne Sweeney; president of Disney &

ABC TV. Statistics also show that women who are economically independent and

educated have a more successful marriage.

The white-collar jobs that men traditionally held are fading away, mostly because

many middle aged men have become unemployable, causing a role reversal.

According to government data, eighty percent of the layoffs during the current recession

have been to men that dominate the heavily hit fields like construction and

manufacturing. While female dominated fields like healthcare are more stable. A recent

survey by Career Builder.com   found that 37 percent of men would... [continues]

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