Men must learn to send gift baskets early and often as women encounter and endure overwhelming pressure at work.
Sometime late in 2009, women out-numbered men in the United States workforce for the first time since the end of World War II.
Whatever this development may reveal about productivity, gender roles, and the American economy, it testifies to the greater-than-ever urgency of sending gift baskets.
Shifting workforce dynamics challenge men to assume the majority of responsibility for sending gift baskets to their hard-working, multi-tasking, majorly stressing partners.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, women have graduated from college at five times the rate of men.
Not surprisingly, therefore, the United States has approximately equal numbers of men and women practicing law.
The same soon will be true of medicine.
Men, therefore, must understand that these two demanding professions show no respect for a woman's time, endurance, or circumstances.
An attorney waging a spirited defense of her client cannot rest until the verdict comes in.
A pediatrician investing all of her spirit and knowledge in saving a "neo-nate" cannot truly relax until that baby breathes on his own.
These dedicated professionals need emotional and physical sustenance.
These devoted women need chocolate baskets brimful of comfort foods and tiny solaces.
A properly sensitive, thoughtful man will understand how over-worked and under-appreciated professional women do not need flowers and cards, the simple stuff of romance.
They need big baskets full of fruit, cheese, wine, cookies, lotions, body sprays, aromatherapy candles, under-eye concealers, and more wine.
A truly dedicated American man will recognize the value of adding a gift certificate for an aromatherapy massage to the gift-basket mix.
Without the carefully chosen and well-timed chocolates by post basket, the American economic recovery cannot proceed.
For a woman dedicated to keeping corporate America growing and prospering, a gift basket is far timelier and much more appreciated under the pressure of an impossible deadline than in the moment of triumph over the clock.
As a woman burns the midnight oil, keeping seven documents open on her screen all at once, un-sticking the copy machine and showing her dominance over the collator, she needs chocolate, she requires cookies, and she must have exotic teas and coffees.
Red-blooded American men must step-up and take responsibility for delivering these essentials properly basketed and bowed.
Sometime late in 2009, women out-numbered men in the United States workforce for the first time since the end of World War II.
Whatever this development may reveal about productivity, gender roles, and the American economy, it testifies to the greater-than-ever urgency of sending gift baskets.
Shifting workforce dynamics challenge men to assume the majority of responsibility for sending gift baskets to their hard-working, multi-tasking, majorly stressing partners.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, women have graduated from college at five times the rate of men.
Not surprisingly, therefore, the United States has approximately equal numbers of men and women practicing law.
The same soon will be true of medicine.
Men, therefore, must understand that these two demanding professions show no respect for a woman's time, endurance, or circumstances.
An attorney waging a spirited defense of her client cannot rest until the verdict comes in.
A pediatrician investing all of her spirit and knowledge in saving a "neo-nate" cannot truly relax until that baby breathes on his own.
These dedicated professionals need emotional and physical sustenance.
These devoted women need chocolate baskets brimful of comfort foods and tiny solaces.
A properly sensitive, thoughtful man will understand how over-worked and under-appreciated professional women do not need flowers and cards, the simple stuff of romance.
They need big baskets full of fruit, cheese, wine, cookies, lotions, body sprays, aromatherapy candles, under-eye concealers, and more wine.
A truly dedicated American man will recognize the value of adding a gift certificate for an aromatherapy massage to the gift-basket mix.
Without the carefully chosen and well-timed chocolates by post basket, the American economic recovery cannot proceed.
For a woman dedicated to keeping corporate America growing and prospering, a gift basket is far timelier and much more appreciated under the pressure of an impossible deadline than in the moment of triumph over the clock.
As a woman burns the midnight oil, keeping seven documents open on her screen all at once, un-sticking the copy machine and showing her dominance over the collator, she needs chocolate, she requires cookies, and she must have exotic teas and coffees.
Red-blooded American men must step-up and take responsibility for delivering these essentials properly basketed and bowed.
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