Last Wednesday we criticized a Matthew Dowd article for leaving out the marriage variable, it explains much about lives and what social class we end up in. Now here is a decent New York Times article which focuses exactly on the marriage variable and its power in people's lives.
Jason DeParle who wrote the Times article does a good job of merging examples from the lives of two women who work together, one married, one not, and the ways their experiences diverge as a result. He cleverly blends this together with the demographic and sociological data which show that his examples are not outliers, but quite typical.
