The Househusband

“One Wednesday evening I was tiptoeing my way toward asking Charles how he felt about his wife’s achievements — nervous that I might wound his pride — when he said: ‘I know what you’re asking. How does it feel to go from being the major breadwinner to the secondary breadwinner?’”
 — The Times Magazine has a (long!) adapted excerpt from Hanna Rosin’s upcoming book (about how the “new state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more”). Wouldn’t it be convenient if “having it all” actually meant “having [read] all [of the interesting new articles about the current state of men and women]”? There are so many! But it would be doable.