[men and women] sad, sad times for the west

It is always the woman who holds the relationship together, the one who defines its nature – of that I am absolutely certain. And it is also the woman who destroys it - the man just goes along for the ride and does his protective, bring-home-the-bacon thing. Over here in the east, a girl of twenty-four I was with yesterday, pulling down a substantial salary as an uber-economist, was plotting how to get into the family making, devoted to a devoted husband and tempering her glittering career. Is she a dying breed? The Telegraph thinks so.