U Not Gonna Like This

This post from the archives of Pooks Mill:

Here is a fantastic article Newsweek did on the 'marriage crunch' way back in 1986. The article is full of great quotes and really reveals how some women think (such as one women deciding to buy a house instead of getting a husband to do it. So that is the purpose of husbands is to turn them into a house?). It also shows many women's panic over this article back then.


And on the MSNBC Site:

It was Valentine's Day when Sharon Makover learned of it on the news, and the irony did not elude her. "I thought, 'This is not what I want to be hearing today"." Having recently split up with one boyfriend, Makover was at a crossroads: should she throw herself into her career or commit to a new boyfriend living in another country? "It got me thinking about what I wanted to do with my life," says Makover, 26, a curatorial assistant at the Jewish Museum in New York. A month later she was engaged.

All things being equal, Los Angeles screenwriter Nancy Rigg would prefer having a husband. Nevertheless, the news infuriated her. "It reinforces an old myth that once you hit 30, you're over the hill," says Rigg, 36. "I imagine that women who are buying into this are pretty depressed right now. It was like Moses came down the mountain and said, 'Boo on you women"."