The Richer Sex - One-third of women now earn more than their husbands, and not everyone is happy.

5eraph · 2012-03-16T18:25:15+00:00

Just wanted to drop this quote from the article: "She’s a doctor and he’s a dentist, but Mendonca earns more because she works longer hours."

Hmm... sounds like one of the many counter-arguments to the wage gap myth. Men work longer hours, and therefore make more. Nope, that must be the patriarchy. But when a woman makes more because she works longer hours - that's just good, old fashioned, hard work.

hardwarequestions · 2012-03-16T17:49:47+00:00

Had trouble getting passed the opening image.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-03-16T18:09:06+00:00

'I'm the best at everything! Pity me!' Make your mind up. Also this is an anecdotal meaningless pile of crap.

IHaveALargePenis · 2012-03-16T20:37:57+00:00

It seems strange that they provide hard statistics on how women are earning more, but only give opinions/paraphrase things when these high earning women are negatively affected. I wouldn't mind seeing actual statistics on how many husbands are unhappy with their spouse earning more and why. It's not like women aren't unhappy with their spouse when he earns more, but usually the reasons for that are long hours at work, frequent travel, etc.

2012-03-16T22:23:16+00:00

Women are doing the majority of work at home...

I've only ever seen self-reported studies of this sort of thing and it only ever covers cleaning, laundering, cooking, and child care. The last study I read considered that women could be over-reporting their household work as not to be perceived negatively. Then what about the home renovations, painting, repair work, work on the cars, landscaping, etc., etc., that are never factored in?

They battle being judged as bad mothers for not having time to join the PTA.

Who are they being judged by mostly? As a man I judge myself pretty hard, I'm my own worst critic, but my peers are very supportive. In a few years my wife could very well make more than me and I'm cool with that. But my wife gets judged as a mother and as a small business owner quite harshly by her female peers, much harder than my male peers would judge me.

ThePigman · 2012-03-17T00:44:17+00:00

Unless there are suddenly more than two sexes this is one seriously mathematically challenged headline.

ignatiusloyola · 2012-03-16T21:12:14+00:00

I can't help but imagine that the reason men and women feel unhappy with this situation is that men are socialized to feel self worth from their occupation while women are socialized to feel self worth from their family commitments. And yet the article doesn't seem to address that appropriately, in my opinion.

Ghee_Buttersnaps_ · 2012-03-17T07:05:55+00:00

My response to this entire article: "Who cares!?" It's a sexist heap of feces dressed up to make men look bad and make women look like all powerful overlords. I wonder what feminists will talk about now that the "wage gap" is gone. Wow, just wow.

TheRealPariah · 2012-03-17T08:43:57+00:00

As soon as alimony laws start to effect women in larger numbers because they are higher earners, I bet they are changed. Anyone want to take me up on this?

2012-03-17T04:39:05+00:00

Problems also arise if the man feels threatened, or that he’s not fulfilling the provider role. A 2010 study presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting showed that men who are totally economically dependent on their wives are five times more likely to cheat than husbands who earn the same as their spouse; they are least likely to cheat when their wives earn 25 per cent less than them.<

Isn't there also a study that shows the men are actually more likely to be cheated on if they make less?

Title	The Richer Sex - One-third of women now earn more than their husbands, and not everyone is happy.
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Date	March 16, 2012 5:42 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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