2024-04-11
4 分钟The Economist. Hello, this is Aura Ogumbi,
co-host of The Intelligence, our daily news and current affairs podcast.
Welcome to Editor's Picks.
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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 startup based in the Bay Area, more than 400 miles away.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is writing code from their apartment just off campus,
while she attends her classes at Harvard Law School.
She is an obstetrician.
He works remotely for a tech company.
She is an academic at an Ivy League university.
He works for a crypto company.
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.
This is hardly a gender-swapped 1950s revival.
The men are still working, after all,