A new trend is emerging among well-heeled and well-educated couples, where wives go to work while husbands stay at home due to remote work opportunities.
In Costa Mesa, a city in California’s wealthy, beachy Orange County, she is working her way up to becoming a partner in the local office of a major law firm; he is an executive at a tech start-up based in the Bay Area, more than 650km away.All over the country, among the well-heeled and well-educated, a new trend appears to be emerging. When the wives head out in the morning, to their offices, classrooms or hospitals, they are waving goodbye to their husbands, who remain at home.
Men and women still specialise in different kinds of work. Jobs in industries such as computer science and engineering are disproportionately performed by men. Teaching and nursing jobs are dominated by women. Professions such as law and medicine may still employ more men than women, but the scales are tipping: more women than men are enrolled in law school and medical school. As such, among young couples, she is probably more likely to be going to be a lawyer or a doctor than he is.
The upshot is that, in aggregate, it is easier for men to work from wherever they please. A survey carried out by McKinsey, a consultancy, found that 38 per cent of working men had the option to work remotely full-time, compared with 30 per cent of women. Roughly half of women report being unable to work remotely at all, compared with 39 per cent of men.This may sound like yet another way in which women have ended up with the short end of the stick. But that view is myopic.
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