kay hagan longer than women. studies show when they lose a job, can't be the provider, sometimes the psychological and emotional impact of that is so great that they leave the marriage. so obviously it can be enormously hard on men when they lose their jobs and identity as a provider is taken away. studies have shown during this recession that men were appreciative and grateful of wives and girlfriends keep in their households afloat. sociologists interviewed some of these guys and they said i really like her you have her and i got up early and made her coffee because she was the one who was going off to work. and i think that does suggest there's been a mindset. during the depression when women kept households afloat, they were not praised in their household. they were stigmatized, work in whitesburg. has-beens were devastated by the loss of their own jobs, but women were regarded as having taken a job from a man. even though it's difficult, there's more gratitude and appreciation acceptance by men who've lost t