Once again, science confirms common sense:
Women who are high-achievers in the workplace may be damaging their chances of having children, a study has found.
Researchers found that career women tend to have androgynous figures which indicate higher levels of androgens, as opposed to oestrogen, which is vital for conceiving successfully.
In turn, women with more shapely figures have higher levels of oestrogen.
Professor Elizabeth Cashdan of the University of Utah found that the stress of high-powered jobs causes a hormonal shift in women, resulting in the female hormone oestrogen to be replaced by androgens - a group of hormones that includes the male hormone testosterone linked with strength and competitiveness.
In a nutshell, the study says that highly-competitive workplaces make women less, well, feminine. This cannot be good news for thirtysomething career women who spent their young, attractive, fertile years playing the field and turning down serious relationships out of a desire to focus primarily on their educations and careers.
The older I become, the more I realize that feminism -- at least in its form over the past several decades -- intended, naively, to turn the laws of nature upside-down while forgetting that it would be impossible. Men, at least those who are worth their salt, want ladylike women who be good wives and mothers; they do not want guys with vaginas. Women, at least those who properly prioritize home and hearth, want manly men who will take care of their families and to whom they can look up; they do not want girls with a penis.
In more ways than one, Forbes.com editor Michael Noer was correct when he warned men about marrying so-called career women.* Society and nature -- or God, if you will -- generally designed men to be resource providers and women to be care providers. Anyone who thinks otherwise is ignoring reality and buying into politically-correct propaganda. Is this sexist? Of course. But it is also the truth.
My prior essay: The Battle of the Sexes
* For the record, I do not consider a "career woman" to be any woman with a job. A career woman is someone who prioritizes her job over her home and family, whose primary source of satisfaction will always be her job, and who will pause even for a moment while weighing a choice that will affect either her job or her family negatively. Women should always choose family over their careers.
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