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Earning Power in the Family - Women Earning Over Men? posted on February 17, 2010

I have been reading various reports and studies lately that talk about the way we live in the American family.  What is the make-up of your American family?  The Shriver Report caught my attention.  It was issued four months ago and if it is old news to you, thanks for reading at least this far. 

It seems that American women now outnumber American men and also earn more income for the household.  Some men are staying home to care for the kids, where it was a woman’s assumed domain just a generation ago.  The way we live into our families is being demanded by a variety of factors that may (or may not) include: education, economic downturn, marriage or not, and more.

Here is a quote:
      This report describes how a woman’s nation changes everything about how we live and work today. Now for the first time in our nation’s history, women are half of all U.S.  workers and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. This is a dramatic shift from just a generation ago (in 1967 women made up only one-third of all workers). It changes how women spend their days and has a ripple effect that reverberates throughout our nation. It fundamentally changes how we all work and live, not just women but also their families, their co-workers, their bosses, their faith institutions, and their communities.

Quite simply, women as half of all workers changes everything.

How does it work in your family, American, or anywhere on the planet, as you read this entry? Are you a two parent household?  Do you share responsibilities with chores and jobs?  Are the men intimidated if the women bring more income into the home?  Is this a sexist question in the first place? 

We are interested in the common good; caring for one another is certainly part of the answer to the question: how do we help the common good become realized? 

This media can be shared quickly and by many, which is part of being a media literate, informed family in the 21st century.  No matter the make-up of your family, who brings in the income and who does not - these statistics mean something to the kids in the classroom, people in the pew next to you, or how food is advertised to you as you watch the television at night.  So, what is it like in your world?

One thing we do know, you can listen for music that supports caring for one another on Common Good Radio with: Love Makes a Family, Cathy Fink, Glad to Be Me, Peter and Ellen Allard, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, the Sugarbeats, and Better Man, Keb Mo. 

With blessings for the common good,
Pastor Robin

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