Forbes Pulls Article on Working Women Not Being the Marrying Kind

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Sometime this afternoon Forbes pulled Michael Noer’s article on how career women make lousy wives. Here’s the cached version if you have yet to see it.

Now there’s a link on Forbes.com to the stripped down text of the piece paired with a rebuttal from Forbes reporter Elizabeth Corcoran entitled, “Don’t Marry a Lazy Man.” The website is also offering a discussion forum, which had more than 180 comments as of this evening.

All this strikes a different tone than the one surrounding the original article, which featured a slideshow called “Nine Reasons to Steer Clear of Married Women,” complete with campy photos of women with tear-streaked faces. Maybe the folks at the magazine realized that with half of all U.S. business owned by women, quite a few actually read Forbes, and they may not like what they see. Curiously the page that hosted the original article now reads: Something’s gone awry!

Maybe that’s Steve Forbes talking?

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