please welcome liza mundy. thanks so much for coming on.ington post," okay, and you're currently a fellow at the new america foundation. now, let's talk about some of the new america that you foresee. you've got a new book here called "the richer sex-- how the new majority of female bread winners is transforming sex, love, and family." what do you mean "the female bread winner." i'm not saying the ladies shouldn't be in the workforce and they don't do a good job, but men are the bread winners traditionally. this is a traditional country. >> traditionally, yes, but increasingly not. we're at a point where almost 40% of working wives out-earn their husbands. we have, you know, women having kids and supporting them as single moms. and we're looking maybe in 20 years, if the percentage of women who are out-earning their husbands continue rising the way it has been, by 2030 that figure could go over 50%. >> stephen: i thought ladies on average for the same work were getting paid 70% of what men were being paid. that was the deal. ( laughter ). >

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we're back with liza mundy, the author of "the richer sex." and as i promised, we're going to talk about the bedroom, how this flip has worked or not worked in the bedroom. talk to me, liza. this is a very sensitive subject for a lot of people. >> guest: yeah, yeah. but i get asked this a lot, actually. >> host: really? >> guest: yeah. obviously, human beings are complicated, and it varies, and i would argue and i do argue that for young women being empowered, having your own earnings enables you to wait around. there's this idea that women used to trade any number of things in, you know, trade their sexual services for marriage, for provision. you know, or trade their domestic services. that marriage was a deal or a trade, and one of the things a woman was giving was her sexual service in order to be provided for. women don't have to do that anymore. so i would argue that for young women, you're looking very skeptical. [laughter] >> host: no. i'm just thinking about some things that you're saying. >> guest: i would argue that for young women i

this week, liza mundy. she says a growing percentage of women are earning more than their husbands and changing the social order. more men are looking at marriage as a means of economic stability or staying home with the children, choices previously reserved for women. the former washington post reporter discusses the long-term implications of this and other economy-related role reversals with april ryan, american urban radio white correspondent. >> host: liza moneyty, you have -- mundy, you have written a fascinating book. it's a read, i think, that needs to be put on the book shelves of stores of homes of men and women. we're talking about breadwinners, the socioeconomic shift that's happened. and just in reading this book i saw something that said that in the 1970s b the single digits for women who run the household, to be the breadwinner, and now it's over 40%, i believe, of women in this nation? >> guest: right. >> host: who are running households. talk to me about the good news about that and why it h

liza mundy, thank you so much for joining me. the book is "the ( cheers and applause ) the book is "the ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: that's it for the dennis: mac, you've got to see this movie, dude. dee: really? i thought it was boring. boring? it's about the end of the world, dee. "an inconvenient truth" is not about the end of the world. it is about how, if we don't stop global warming, we are gonna destroy this environment. i think it sounds cool. i'll check it out. it is. it's awesome. dude, come on. what the hell is that? what? are you kidding me? what is the big deal, dennis? what is the big deal? are you nuts? it's, like, you see a movie, and now you're crazy about the environment. oh, i'm sorry, dee. maybe i would actually like to do some good in this world. maybe i would like to make a difference. ooh! oh, you would? you want to do good? yes, yes, yes, i do. you're not good at that. i can do good. i am capable of doing good. you just screw people over for your own benefit. you guys are gonna be so angry when you

. >> host: liza mundy thank you very much for this very valuable our. "the richer sex" how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love and family, author liza mundy thank you so much. >> guest: thank you so much. >> he was a very shy child spent most of his time tinkering and googling -- doodling in his father's house. his father wanted him to be a lawyer. well call amity happens when the family has a severe economic reversal. they lose their mansion and he is forced to drop out. and he basically said if it wasn't for the fact that my father, and my father had not gone bankrupt i would not have had the drive that i have today to remake myself. so, working his way through colombia to get his b.a. and then he got his law degree, practiced law for one year and hated it and eventually admiral called david taylor. taylor taught him what it needed to learn and gibbs moved to new york and started a very successful practice designing naval ships. he designed 70% of all naval vessels in world war ii which is an incredible achievement. destr

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