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laws were revised:
See Kay C. Lee, “Confucian Ethics, Judges, and Women: Divorce Under the Revised Korean Family Law,”
Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal
4, no. 2 (1995): 479–503.

the government abolished:
Sanghui Nam, “The Women’s Movement and the Transformation of the Family Law in South Korea. Interactions Between Local, National, and Global Structures,”
European Journal of East Asian Studies
9, no. 1 (2010): 67–86.

about half of all women:
Woojin Chung and Monica Das Gupta, “Why Is Son Preference Declining in South Korea? The Role of Development and Public Policy and the Implications for China and India,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March 29–31, 2007.

In Latin American countries:
Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, and Laura E. Rumbley, “Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution,” Report Prepared for the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, 2009. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183168e.pdf.

Latin American companies had fewer women in senior positions:
“Women in Senior Management: Still Not Enough,” Grant Thornton International Business Report, 2012. http://www.gti.org/files/ibr2012%20-%20women%20in%20senior%20management%20master.pdf.

In Spain, some men have found:
Albert Esteve, Alberto Del Rey, and Clara Cortina, “Pathways to Family Formation of International
Migrants in Spain,” XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference, October 1, 2009. http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=92078.

Among the ten countries:
“World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision,” UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, April 2011. http://esa.un.org/wpp/Excel-Data/fertility.htm.

Divorce, still taboo in Asian society:
See “Asia’s Lonely Hearts,”
The Economist
, August 20, 2011. http://www.economist.com/node/21526350.

King Kong girl (a term invented by French feminist Virginie Despentes):
Virginie Despentes,
King Kong Theory
(New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2010).

“All that glitters is not gold”:
Ahn Mi Young, “Poverty May Await S. Korea’s Spendthrift ‘Gold Misses,’”
The China Post
, August 15, 2009.

I may be a good employee:
Brian Lee, “The Disappearing, Desperate Working Mom,”
Korea JoongAng Daily
, February 25, 2010.

“obsessed with having to excel in everything”:
“Alpha at Work, Omega at Life: Korea’s Superwomen,”
The Chosunilbo
, May 23, 2008. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/05/23/2008052361016.html.

A research team at Harvard Business School:
Jordan Siegel, Lynn Pyun, and B. Y. Cheon, “Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide,” HBS Working Paper 11-011, 2010.

Sixty-one percent of single Japanese men:
See “Single Japanese Men: Lonely in a Crowd?”
The Wall Street Journal
, November 28, 2011.

ideal of the attractive:
Virginie Despentes,
King Kong Theory
(New York: Feminist Press, 2010) p. 11.

In 2009, sociologists Carla Shows and Naomi Gerstel:
Carla Shows and Naomi Gerstel, “Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and EMTs,”
Gender & Society
23, no. 2 (2009): 161–187.

“encouraging mockery of dads”:
Seth Stevenson, “The Reign of the Doltish Dad,”
Slate,
March 26, 2012.

The men want children more:
Nick McDermott, “Now It’s MEN Who Want to Settle Down Rather Than Women, According to New Research,”
The Daily Mail,
February 14, 2011.

“steeped in nostalgia”:
Leo Braudy,
From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity
(New York: Knopf, 2004; Vintage, 2005), p. 6.

story for
Slate
by an American father:
Nathan Hegedus, “Snack Bags and a Regular Paycheck: The Happy Life of a Swedish Dad,”
Slate
, August 31, 2010.

The Japanese government has recently started:
Felicity Hughes, “Ikumen: Raising New Father Figures in Japan,”
The Japan Times,
August 30, 2011.

“strong, almost hyper-romantic language to talk about love”:
Amy Schalet, “Caring, Romantic American Boys,”
The New York Times,
April 6, 2012.

an anthropological study of the worksites:
Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson, “An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms,”
Research in Organizational Behavior
30, no. 30 (2010): 3–34.

The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.

Accounting, 108, 118, 124, 226

Addiction, 46

drug, 87, 88

Advanced Placement (AP) exams, 153

Afghanistan, 42

Affirmative action, 146, 147

African-Americans, 53, 94, 101, 147, 155, 157, 180

college-educated, 89–90, 94

in manufacturing jobs, 88

Aggression, 170

female, 173, 176, 183, 185–87, 189

male, 174–76

Alabama, 91–92, 110.
See also specific cities, counties, and towns

Alabama, University of, Huntsville, 178

Alexander City (Alabama), 79–88, 95, 97–106

Allen, Woody, 190

Alvin Ho
(Look), 190

American Council on Education, 155

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
, 119

American Psycho
(Ellis), 173

Anal sex, 17, 27, 42, 44

Anderson, Sherwood, 128

Andrews, Steven and Sarah, 70–77

Apatow, Judd, 56, 138

Apple, William S., 134

Arab Spring, 151

Argentina, 28, 150

Ark & Pancom, 244

Armstrong, Elizabeth, 22–25

Arnett, Will, 265

Arthur Colton Company, 127–28

Asian Debate Institute, 231

Ask For It
(Babcock and Laschever), 209

Atlanta (Georgia), 81

Atlantic
magazine, 14, 160, 221

Attractiveness, 30, 131, 256

Auburn (Alabama), 103, 106–10

Auburn University, 97, 105, 106, 108

Economic & Community Development Institute, 86

Austen, Jane, 114

Australia, 150, 166, 167, 245

Automatic Pill Making Machines, 127–28

Auto industry, 87

Korean, 111, 204, 234, 250

Autor, David, 87, 125

Babcock, Linda, 207–9

Babies, sex preference for, 12–14

Bahrain, 150

Bangalore, 193

Baron-Cohen, Simon, 174, 262

Baum, Sandy, 158

Baumbach, Noah, 56

Baumeister, Roy, 37, 41, 42

Beauty premium. S
ee
Erotic capital

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1, 11

Belarus, 237

Belgium, 55

Bell Jar, The
(Plath), 50

Bem Sex Role Inventory, 187

Bem test, 9, 16

Bend It Like Beckham
(movie), 189

Benjamin Russell High School, 80, 82, 95, 99–102, 105, 106

Berkshire Hathaway, 81

Best Buy, 226

Better Angels of Our Nature, The
(Pinker), 174–75

Beyoncé, 181, 190

Bible, 75, 97

Proverbs, 98

Bieber, Justin, 267

Big Sort, The
(Bishop), 87

Birmingham (Alabama), 104

Bishop, Amy, 178

Bishop, Bill, 87

Black Widows of Chechnya, 184

Blue-collar jobs, 57. S
ee also
Working class

Bobbitt, Lorena, 178

Bogle, Kathleen, 20–21

Boomerang
(Lewis), 202

Borghans, Lex, 135

Boushey, Heather, 49, 124

Bowles, Hannah Riley, 211–15

Brain difference, 159–60, 174, 262

cultural factors in, 40–41, 166

Braudy, Leo, 267

Brazil, 6, 81, 151, 237

Breadwinner wives, 7, 48–77, 265

and domestic responsibilities, 53–55, 71–77

media representations of, 55–57

and impacts of male job loss, 3, 61–63

versus traditional gender role expectations, 63–70

Breast-feeding, 75, 221

Briggs & Stratton, 108–9

Brin, Sergey, 194

Bristol-Myers Squibb, 172

Britain. S
ee
United Kingdom

Brizendine, Louann, 262

Brodsky, Alexandra, 18

Brooks, David, 86

Brown, Tina, 219, 227–29

Browne, Kingsley, 174

Brzezinski, Mika, 214

Buchmann, Claudia, 159

Buddhism, 45

Burger King, 179

Burns, James MacGregor, 199

Burress, Ashley, 157

Burt, Laura, 138

Bush, George W., 148

Business schools, 26–33, 36, 108, 216, 219, 275.
See also specific universities

Butler, Judith, 60

California, 92, 251.
See also
Silicon Valley

California, University of, 156

Davis, 201

San Diego, 188

Cambridge University, 174

Canadian Medical Association, 68

Capone, Al, 178

Carbone, June, 88

Carnegie Mellon University, 207–8

Carroll, Jason Michael, 95

Carter, Jimmy, 92

Cassidy, Sukhinder Singh, 226

Census Bureau, U.S., 92, 153

Center for American Progress, 49, 124

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 20

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 19, 200

Central California Research Laboratories, 170

Chasing Stars
(Groysberg), 203

Cheers
(television show), 56

Chicago, University of, 185, 251

Business School, 216, 218

Chicopee (Massachusetts), 179

Child care, 14, 54, 218, 221–22, 224, 242, 264

government options for, 244

jobs in, 9, 118, 124

China, 5, 166

China Post, The
, 239

Christians, 97

evangelical, 92, 284
n

Chung, James, 107

Chung, Vivien, 251–52

Citigroup, 205

Civil rights, 132, 148

Civil Rights Commission, U.S., 146

Civil War, 128

Clerical schools, 120, 130

Clovis (California), 169

Coal
(television show), 87

Cognitive dissonance, 33

Cohen, Bernard, 68

Cold War, 152

Colorado, 170

Colombia, 55, 81, 237

Color Me Flo
(Kennedy), 65

Columbia University, 119

Business School, 200

Comedy Central, 126–27, 143

Competition, 52, 174, 244

academic, in Korea, 232–33

for college admissions, 160

in traditional societies, 174, 188–89

Confucianism, 233, 234, 257

Congress, U.S., 205

Cookie
magazine, 11

Coontz, Stephanie, 51

Cooper, Hannah, 113–17, 119–20, 123–24, 126–27, 130, 141–43

Cornwell, Patricia, 176

Cosby, Bill, 90

Cosmopolitan
magazine, 31, 40

Creal, Cameron, 156

Creative Korea party, 249

Crime, violent, 175–85

against women, decline in, 19, 176, 182

committed by women, 176–78, 184–85

Daily Beast, The
, 219, 228

“Dancing on My Own” (song), 44

Dating sites, 52, 255

Daum, Meghan, 31

Delahunty, Jennifer, 158–59

Deloitte Consulting, 141, 226

Delta Kappa Epsilon, 17

Democratic Party, 148

Denney, Leandra, 88

Denny’s, 179

Despentes, Virginie, 238, 256

Diana Chronicles, The
(Brown), 228

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
(Kinney), 190

DiPrete, Thomas A., 159

Divided Labours
(Browne), 174

Divorce, 39–40, 49, 66–68, 94, 98, 101, 269

in Asia, 6, 238, 255

of breadwinner wives and unemployed husbands, 51, 81–82

and career opportunities for women, 152–53, 157

custody of children after, 125

financial impacts of, 68, 91, 283
n

murder as alternative to, 170, 172

regional differences in rates of, 92

Doctors, female, 59, 117, 132, 255–56

specialties chosen by, 118, 140

Domestic violence, 14, 170, 183

Drew, Ina, 202–3

Druggists’ Bulletin
, 129

Drug Topics
magazine, 131

Duke University, 43

Dunham, Lena, 43

Dushane, Melodi, 179

eBay, 224

Ebony
magazine, 89

Economist, The
, 253

Ecuador, 55

Edge City
(Garreau), 133

Edin, Kathryn, 92–93

Education Department, U.S., 161, 224

Ehrenreich, Barbara, 41, 63

Eliot, George, 163

Eliot, Lise, 161, 174

Ellis, Bret Easton, 173

El-Scari, Mustafaa, 89–90

Empowerment, 30, 38, 45, 190

EMTs, 264

Engineers, 13, 54, 73, 80, 108, 150, 196

England, Paula, 24–25

Enlightened Power
(Gergen), 199

Ericsson, Ronald, 11–13

Ernst & Young, 226

Erotic capital, 30, 37–38