![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Rather than a shout of rage, The Wife Originally published: North Sydney, NSW: Ebury Press, 2014. Crabb s call is for a ceasefire in the gender wars. But the women rarely have a man at home keeping happiness and hearth together. ![]() Here she looks around at her cohort set and recognises that all successful men have a wife at home keeping the family together and the fires burning. ![]() Written in Annabel Crabb s inimitable style, it s full of candid and funny stories from the author s work in and around politics and the media, historical nuggets about the role of The Wife in Australia, and intriguing research about the attitudes that pulse beneath the surface of egalitarian Australia. Annabel Crabb is a witty intelligent woman, who has a sharp eye and clear reporting style. But why is the work-and-family debate always about women? Why don t men get the same flexibility that women do? In our fixation on the barriers that face women on the way into the workplace, do we forget about the barriers that for men still block the exits? The Wife Drought is about women, men, family and work. Working women are in an advanced, sustained, and chronically under-reported state of wife drought, and there is no sign of rain. ![]() And it s an advantage enjoyed even in our modern society by vastly more men than women. It s a potent economic asset on the work front. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. 'I need a wife' It s a common joke among women juggling work and family. ![]()
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