Women experience reduced relationship satisfaction when they are the higher wage earners in a household

rabel111 · 2020-03-12T00:18:23+00:00

Both men and women became less satisfied when they transitioned to dual‐earner households where women out‐earned their partners. Becoming a female‐breadwinner household due to male unemployment or illness decreased relationship satisfaction for women. Respondents were most satisfied when they were in male‐breadwinner, female‐homemaker households. For women, but not men, gender role attitudes influenced some of these associations.

Women on average were least satisfied with the relationship when she became the primary breadwinner due to her partner being unable to work due to illness or disability. The reverse is not the case; the woman being unable to work does not, on average, affect the man’s relationship satisfaction.

This suggests that women were less tolerant of a partner's loss of contribution to household finances.

perplexedm · 2020-03-12T11:17:02+00:00

And this behavior is universal.

Is this how 'women's empowerment' plays out?

https://www.rediff.com/news/column/is-this-how-womens-empowerment-plays-out/20200307.htm

Title	Women experience reduced relationship satisfaction when they are the higher wage earners in a household
Author	rabel111
Upvotes	48
Comments	10
Date	March 12, 2020 12:17 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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