Ever wonder what laid-off male lawyers with working wives are up to these days? Alexandria Symonds gives us a hint in a recent article in The New York Observer, and although her focus isn’t on lawyers per se, it’s easy to see how laid-off lawyers would fit the pattern.

She calls them “The Problem That Has No Job: a kind of upside-down Mad Men meets Mr Mom where wives and girlfriends are out all day making money while unemployed guys mop floors, cook dinner, and experience all the attendant ennui.”