Until 1920, women were not permitted the right to vote in America but now in less than one century, women are dominating men from elementary learning to higher education to the board rooms of International business. With each passing election, more women are being elected to political office from state houses all the way to the Unites States Senate. More and more companies are hiring female CEO’s and the success of these women will only ensure more female hires for the top positions in the business world. Women now hold sixteen percent of corporate officer positions at large U.S. public companies (double the amount from only seven years ago). As women operate from these powerful positions, they will be hiring more women for lower level management positions, which will ensure even more future female executives and CEO’s.

Even Dr. Montagu did not foresee such a rapid societal change. When he originally wrote “The Natural Superiority of Women” in 1952, Dr. Montagu commented on how men were fighting to maintain control of their role as the “breadwinner” and how that macho attitude was a reflection of man’s insecurity and a way for man to compensate for his inner feeling of inferiority when compared to the nature of the female.

“I am not the first to suggest, and I am sure I shall not be the last, that the male’s drive in work and achievement may actually be the consequence of his recognition of his biological inferiority with respect to the female’s creative capacity to conceive and create human beings.

One of the ways in which the male may compensate for this biological inferiority is by work and by achievement. By keeping the means of making a livelihood almost exclusively a masculine prerogative, men have unconsciously, as well as consciously, been able to satisfy themselves that they are by nature the “breadwinners”, the pillars of society and the guarantors of the race. Hence, the great opposition to women when they begin to enter into “competition” with men in earning a living.”

By the 1970’s, that competition was a reality and after only three decades, the insecure male’s worst nightmare has been realized. The trend toward women becoming the dominant financial partner within the marriage is growing at a rapid rate. In an article published in the January 2002 issue of Business Week, Michelle Conlin writes;

“After only three decades as members of the mainstream workforce, one in three wives now outearns her husband, up from one in five in 1980.

Women with MBAs are doing even better: Nearly 60% have direct deposits bigger than their husbands. Look for the ranks of the female breadwinner to rise even more, with 20% more women than men graduating from college and more women swelling the managerial ranks every year.”

Later in the same article Ms Conlin reveals a surprising discovery,