A recent survey in England revealed that 64% of women want a husband who makes more money than them, and 69% would prefer to stay home to be a full-time mother if they were financially able to do so.
I bet the only people surprised by this are social liberals who thought that if you tell a woman long enough that a successful business career will be more meaningful to her than raising a family, she will believe it. Apparently women aren’t buying it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying a woman who wants to work outside the home should not do so. But that is not where most women find their fulfillment in life. God designed men and women differently. Most women find their greatest fulfillment in caring for and raising a family, while most men find their greatest fulfillment in being productive in industry for the benefit of their families. That’s just human nature, and it can’t be socially engineered otherwise.
Thinking to Believe 
January 10, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Jason wrote,
Perhaps your statement should be amended to, “…a woman who has to work outside the home…” in accordance with Titus 2:5 (ESV) —
“to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”
I’ve met many women who would be classified as a stay-at-home-mom-if-financially-feasible, but they’ve continued to work outside their home. Why? Because they want all the modern conveniences and gadgets their two-income friends have. They are not willing sacrifice for the sake of their children. So, while many women may give lip service to biology and tradition, their nod carries an expensive price tag. In fact, the title to the article you’ve linked says it all: What women REALLY want: To marry a rich man and stay at home with the children.
I most certainly agree with you that God has ordained different roles for the sexes and that the majority of women may prefer one aspect of them (working at home), however, I suspect convenience is what has placed many of them in that camp.
Isaiah 3 (KJV)
12. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
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January 10, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Scalia,
Yes, the desire to live at a certain financial threshold is probably what drives most married women with children to work. There are families in which the woman would like to stay at home with the kids, and could do so, but they don’t because they don’t want to downsize their house, get rid of their extra car, stop eating out as much, not be able to buy the latest gadgets, etc. That’s understandable given our culture and society, and yet it is unfortunate as well because it means kids will have less time with their mother, and women will be wasting a lot of time doing things they don’t find fulfilling when they could be doing something they really find fulfilling a lot more.
Jason
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January 11, 2011 at 7:01 am
Praise the Lord Bro Scalia!
Jason Thanks for posting this.
My wife is a stay at home mom of our two girls. It is a huge struggle when we compare our “stuff” with others “stuff”. Which is a bad idea. We’ve done well considering, but we started planning 5 years before we had children and we had to rely on the Lord to provide on so many occasions.
The hardest part is being disciplined enough to not stretch yourself so thin and get in financial trouble, my wife doesn’t want all the gadgets and stuff but she does need financial security even if on a small scale.
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January 11, 2011 at 8:43 am
Praise the Lord, Bro. cs!
I salute you and your wife for the devotion you have to your children. You have a beautiful family.
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January 11, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Agreed!
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January 21, 2011 at 12:09 pm
“God designed men and women differently. Most women find their greatest fulfillment in caring for and raising a family, while most men find their greatest fulfillment in being productive in industry for the benefit of their families. That’s just human nature, and it can’t be socially engineered otherwise.”
Although many women do fit the criteria you just mentioned, you fail to recognize and consider the economic discrimination women face in the workplace. Women make 73 cents for every dollar that men make. According to economists, women face a glass ceiling, or situations where advancement of a qualified person is discriminated against, disabling and stopping them from advancement. So to say that the reason why women find their greatest fulmillment at home because of God’s design is not necessarily true. Maybe if this type of discrimination didn’t exist and they had equal opportunities for salary and advancement, women might be more productive in industry for the benefit of their families, not just men. Fulfillment can be found in a myriad of places, but for men it is no wonder why they find fulfillment in industry in order to benefit their families because of their advantages.
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January 21, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Emileegorham,
The gender discriminatory wage-gap is largely a myth. While there is a gender wage-gap (it’s about $0.80 now, not $0.73), it is not caused by employers paying men more than their women counterparts, but differences in occupational choices between genders, the fact that women tend to work less hours than men, and women leave the workforce in much higher numbers than men in order to spend more time with their family. Indeed, in certain job categories and industries it has been shown that women make more money than their male counterparts.
See http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/03/08/department-of-labor-gender-wage-gap-a-myth/ and http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_wage_gap_myth.html and http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045&page=3 and http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20050314.shtml and http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045&page=1 and http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=6864 and a hundred other sources.
Jason
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April 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Scalia just alerted me to another good article on the wage gap myth in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576250672504707048.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read.
It notes how when similarly situated males and females aged 22-30 were compared, women actually made 8% more than their male counterparts.
Jason
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