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Nick Clegg, the LibDem leader,  proclaimed recently that “a savage recession, like a war, shakes the traditional identity of men and women”, and that unemployed men could “reinvent” themselves as hands-on fathers and proudly support their still-working womenfolk. —The recession is stripping marriage bare, forcing partners to look at each other face on, undistracted by the sideshows of material comforts—