Forbes.com is just the latest media outlet to say working women have terrible marriages. Will this myth ever die?
Gasp! I Married a Career Woman
By Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett 

We have a recurring nightmare. We’re standing on a mountaintop, being attacked by a huge, winged chimera with an enormous head and a mouth that keeps chanting, “Working women are miserable. Their marriages are terrible. Their husbands are miserable. Their children are wrecks.”

We slice off the beast’s head with a sharp sword. Instantly 20 more heads appear to take its place, each chanting, “Working women are miserable, their marriages are terrible ….”

For the media, it is the story that simply will not die. Are you as bored with it as we are?

The newest chimera’s head comes from Forbes.com, in the form of an article last week by editor Michael Noer with a headline, “Don’t Marry Career Women” and subtitled “How do women, careers and marriage mix? Not well, say social scientists.” The article was accompanied by a slide show purporting to show the “social science” on which the piece was based.

The way this story played out tells us a lot about the workings of today’s media, the Internet and the 24-hour continuous news cycle. It may also herald a major new media power source: Femalebloggers Inc.

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