Traditional women or career oriented ones?

With the trend of the women trying to have their own career, and starting to stay single much longer, I wonder whether nowadays men are more attracted to career built, successful business women or they still prefer the perfect housewives? And how women think about this? Do they themselves want to be a housewife or ambitious women?

Are men fine with a more successful wife or they feel threatened by that? Will women become the decision makers in the house and getting control if they bring more money home? Between men and men, do they like to see their mate staying home and taking care of the kid while their mate's wife bring money home?

I am just thinking about from when people start to set up such norms or roles for men and women? For instance, talking about homosexuality, who say when men behave girly, know more stuffs related to girls or take care of their look, they are gay? or if we see two girls hugging each other, we start questioning whether they are lesbians? If this is the case, then in Vietnam or most Asian countries, we are all gay and lesbians ;-) (although I was shocked to see two men kissing here in Belgium when they say hi-not sure if this is Belgian culture or France?)

Personally, I think most men now prefer to have a working wife but at the same time expect her to be good in housing. They can't bear the fact of having a wife staying home, waiting for them, and have no interesting conversion subjects. It likely to be the case of men having affairs because they see other their colleagues at work are much more interesting to talk to. Most women tend to forget or ignore to take care of her look, or social activities after they start living together with their partners. We should always stay neat, clean, and of course pretty as we were on our dates...Actually, not only women should be but men should, too. Who wants to go home with a woman who has horrible hair, dirty clothes, hairy legs (sorry, but if you shave while you dated, why stop when you live together?) or a men who doesn't take shower or his hair has plenty of dandruff but he doesn't care...Fortunately when you love, you stop noticing these unimportant things, but when you start getting bored, all these start coming up like non-stops (let alone other things in the house). So, I think the best way is to keep the romance alive is to live your first date like it was yesterday. If love is real, then the relation will become stronger with time not on the contrary...

There is for me no rules of what should men be or women be. It is a matter of finding the right person for each of us. The rest is important after all we have to live with the person we choose. So, be housewives or successful business women or not depend on our dreams, of what we want to be, become and our goals, not on social expectation..And if the person we choose can deal with that, then it's perfect! A lot of these have to do with our own personalities and families.

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." Goethe