But this conundrum remains: I want the protection and love of a man while maintaining my own alpha qualities. And I will never again hide or play down my success to appease anyone, especially not my partner.
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Yet men are still expected to be protectors and providers. I’ll admit that I benefit from this dynamic. I love that men want to defend the ones they love with strength and fierce determination. I go weak in the knees when a man I’m seeing comes to rescue me from a broken pipe or possessed electronic…
I keep running up against this power dynamic in the dating world, and I blame our culture’s preoccupation with wealth. For many decades, men had greater access to high-paying careers. They still have more access than women do, but the gender pay gap is narrowing.
Our society likes women to be smart and beautiful but also quiet and appeasing. When a woman is opinionated or more traditionally “successful,” it can be threatening to her male partner.
I've learned not to be awkward about it because I am proud...and I am gonna say this, I know a lot of men are going to roll their eyes at this, I hope you don't, but especially as women, we're taught to not talk about these accomplishments or talk about money...but I am proud.
In 2000, there were 11 female billionaires on the planet, according to Forbes; by 2016, there were 190.
Women want the triple win — money, meaning and mobility...they want the big dollars. But they also want to do something that adds value. And they want freedom and flexibility.
Of the nearly 27,000 women in the world worth $30 million or more, a third are self-made.
That a female trailblazer in music, business and popular culture wasn’t up on the feminist conversation du jour reveals where Parton came from: a place where a woman’s strength and independence is more about walk than talk.
For these women, the fight to merely survive is a declaration of equality that could be called “feminist”. But here’s the thing: in my experience, right or wrong, they don’t give a shit what you call it.
Interviewer: You're known for your curves. Have they ever got you into trouble? Dolly: Well yes, but that's why I had curves – I wanted them to get me into trouble.
Information is power. Or it should be. We are living in a new era. The gender pay gap is shrinking, although admittedly we have a long way to go. And well, I learned this first hand.