I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she’s living with—first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner. It’s an increasingly common situation, according to a study that found that the, proportion of American marriages in which the wife makes more money rose to 22 percent in 2007 from 4 percent in 1970. ① I don’t know how it’s going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife, fantasy. Fast forward to 2010. When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm-of unquestioned authority, and of course out goes the gratitude. ② Aside from the irritation of never being able to reach the knife ( men tend to place items on shelves that are a foot higher than women can manage), ! have found co-homemaking inefficient. With21 st-century technology, it’s a straightforward matter to run a modern home. Sheep don’t need to be sheared; the wash is not done on a board by the creek; nothing needs canning, because we have Costco. Even someone who works 40 hours a week can keep a home standing, and food in the fridge, by himself. What can turn into a second shift is not just negotiating the splitting of this labor with another person, but the splitting of decision-making authority. Two co-workers in the home also have the opportunity to regularly evaluate each other’s handiwork, not always to a positive effect. In short, as the Tupperware totters lopsidedly about, in the domestic equation, the work I do at home is no longer a gift, but the labor of a mediocre colleague whose performance could be better. Still, a return to a life more like the 1950s, with one breadwinner and one homemaker, is an unreasonable expectation. It is particularly so since, as the breadwinner, I wish to be the husband, and hence what I’m looking for is a wife—a loyal helpmeet who keeps the home fires burning and offers uncritical emotional support when I, the gladiator, return exhausted from the arena. ~Who are the men without money who can adapt to such a role It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A．men provide their wives with less emotional support than women do B．financially a family can keep a good balance with one breadwinner C．women feel more exhausted than men when working outside D．men would like to be the homemaker rather than the breadwinner