The end of one year and the beginning of a new one always brings two
things, guaranteed: A proliferation of television montages celebrating
the 365-day period that just closed, and plenty of predictions about
what the next 365 will bring.
For obvious reasons (it's the economy, stupid!), hopes for '09 aren't exactly high. Still, this piece in the San Jose Mercury News
contains some interesting forecasts, including this: a "female
economy," ruled by a growing number of women who serve as chief
breadwinners and heads of their households, will emerge. And that could
help us start to crawl out of the financial crisis in which we're
currently wallowing.
That prediction comes courtesy of Marian
Salzman, a futurist and trendspotter (i.e. someone who gets paid to
think about stuff). "We've never gone through a
recession with so many female heads of household before," she tells the Mercury News. "By definition,
that is a big change."
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