Office Spouse Now in Our Social Genetics - part 1

The greatest advantage of both spouses being office spouses is that they will have more disposable income. This is important in today’s world when the cost of living has skyrocketed. With disposable income, a couple can buy the home they always wanted to buy, it can take its children to be best schools, it can afford the best possible medical care, and it can afford its dream car and other luxuries of life, among other benefits. This has the effect of making the couple happier. Should one of the spouses get sick or die, the other one will not have a hard time being the sole bread winner.

When both spouses work, each spouse is able to buy things that the other spouse may not consider to be important. As an example, a woman whose man is not willing to spend more than $500 each months on her clothes can use her own money to buy such clothes. This leads to a more fulfilling life.

Women has proven themselves to be better than man when it comes to handling money. Take for example the famous Nobel prize winner Mohammed Yunus who introduced micro-loans where it was found that women used the loans to great effect. They were far more likely to use the loans for the betterment of the family as well as pay-back the loans much more so than their male counterparts.

Women have excelled at the workplace over the past 100 years or so. They excel in engineering, in medicine, in the military, and in other roles that were the preserve of the men. Women are willing to work twice as hard as their male counterparts to prove that they are worthy. Society should continue supporting women in the workplace because whereas a man may use the money he has to get another wife or a girlfriend, to drink, and for similar wasteful purposes, women are more likely to use their money for the benefit of the whole family.

Most human civilizations were, and still are patriarchal. This is indeed the case even in the animal kingdom. Over the years, men have shied away from allowing women to work for different reasons, among them to ensure they remain submissive and obedient and to ensure they take care of the house and kids. Some men discourage their wives from working because of their egos – they want to be their families’ sole providers. Some believe women are neither physically nor mentally capable of excelling at the workplace.

The fact, however, is that more and more women today are working. So much so that office spouse is now in our social genetics. There are several reasons why all spouses should encourage their significant others to be office spouses.

Office Spouse Now in Our Social Genetics

There have been assertions that working women are more likely to divorce their men. This is actually not true. According to a report by the Center for American Progress, there were 23 divorces for every 1,000 couples towards the end of the 70s, which dropped to fewer than 17 in 2009. Women’s financial independence has no bearing on the divorce rate. The more educated and economically independent a woman is, the more she is likely to stay in her marriage.

Economists and sociologists assert that financially independent women are more selective when choosing who to marrying and that they have greater negotiating power in the marriage. This leads to marriages that are more equitable and fair. This is a win-win situation for the couple. The more people that both spouses meet, the more likely they are to get valuable ideas that will help the family. An equal partnership will attract mutual respect and a more fulfilling life.

When a woman stays at home, there is a risk that she will be stigmatized as being brainless. Men should not expose their wives to the stigma. Stay-at-home mothers have fewer opportunities to make friends and they do not have freedom. Human beings are social creatures who need to interact with their own to feel whole. Freedom, when denied, leads to rebellion and it could lead to such things as infidelity.

Office Spouse Now in Our Social Genetics - part 2