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This just in! Some women still seek rich husbands!

Apparently, I have navigated my life all wrong. From the venerable New York Post:

January 11, 2004 --
"The new breed of wife has learned from the 80s and 90s wives that 'having it all' is a myth - unless they're confident enough to call the shots," said Susan Shapiro Barash, author of "The New Wife: The Evolving Role of the American Wife," (Nonethless Press; $24.95) to be published Valentine's Day.
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"There's a backlash to my mother's generation that says, "That wasn't so much fun,'" says Ashley Lathrop, 29, who quit her job as an advertising account director in Manhattan this year to move to Washington D.C. for her husband's six-figure job as a financial consultant.

In fact, while they were dating, Lathrop bluntly informed her future husband, "I don't want to work now. I want to raise children, and I want you to be the financial provider. If you're not in line with that, you need to say that now."

He was in line with that.

Lathrop expects her first baby this month - and considers it a late start for a couple that plans to have four to seven kids.

And the couple is working on her timetable - Lathrop set a deadline to have kids before turning 35 because she wants to be an energetic, "vibrant" mom.

Any guilt about not working? "No way - why?" she says, laughing.

"We've had it drilled into our heads that women are underpaid as housewives," she says. "But that's a more important job than one with a paycheck every two weeks."

As a girl, Lathrop attended the elite Nightingale-Bamford private school in Manhattan, where many classmates rarely saw their mothers - who worked as high-powered doctors, lawyers and executives.

Lathrop wants to raise her kids in a beautiful home and neighborhood, go on family vacations to France, and train for the next New York Marathon. She also wants to put ongoing energy into her marriage.

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Lathrop said she and her girlfriends differ from traditional 50s or "Stepford Wives" because they have high self-esteem - and will tolerate no disrespect from their husbands.

"I would walk out the door," she says. "I still have education, brainpower and a mom's multifaceted attention to detail. That's a hot commodity in the business world."

I guess there's still time to come up with a bullshit idea for a book that I can pitch as a study of a so-called social revolution.