Female Breadwinners Sign More Divorce Papers

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(Sept. 10) -- If your wife is bringing home more bacon, you might soon be cooking less of it. As in: breakfasts for one, dude.

That's right: a 25-year study that tracked 2,500 married couples found that female breadwinners were 40 percent more likely to divorce their lower-earning husbands than women who raked in less than their partners.

Reporting his findings in the October issue of Journal of Family Issues, sociologist Jay Teachman at Western Washington University noted that the distinction only becomes apparent when women earn 60 percent or more of the family's income.

After that marker, couples became 38 percent more likely to divorce over the 25-year period.

Researchers were "surprised about the strength of the effect," Teachman said, also noting that some of the study's participants -- married between 1979 and 2002 -- may be of "a different generation" with outdated marital expectations.

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[macrosslover]

one of the double standards against. It's perfectly acceptable for a male to marry a woman who makes less money than him, less educated than him, etc.. and everyone to be absolutely happy for that woman and how she found a "good" man. However if it's the other way around and the woman is making more money and more educated then the guy is sorry, the guy is a bum, the woman can do better than him, leave that bum etc.

[limok]

one of the double standards against. It's perfectly acceptable for a male to marry a woman who makes less money than him, less educated than him, etc.. and everyone to be absolutely happy for that woman and how she found a "good" man. However if it's the other way around and the woman is making more money and more educated then the guy is sorry, the guy is a bum, the woman can do better than him, leave that bum etc.

Why do people get married again?