Wives now out-earn their husbands nearly a third of the time

[mystery-ak]

Wives now out-earn their husbands nearly a third of the time
by Nihal Krishan
 | February 01, 2020 12:00 AM



Income inequality between husbands and wives has decreased, suggesting some success in women's empowerment but also highlighting the cultural changes to which society has yet to adapt.

Among married couples, wives now out-earn their husbands nearly 30% of the time, up from 15.9% in 1981, according to recently released data from the Census Bureau.

“Men’s wages have stagnated in the past decade or so, in part because the economy has changed, moving from manufacturing jobs to more service-oriented professions,” said Sarah Jane Glynn, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a left-of-center think tank.

Two major factors in the rise of female breadwinners are that women have made up a majority of college-educated adults for almost four decades now and that societal, cultural shifts in the past few decades have given women more economic freedom and helped narrow the wage gap.

Male-dominated industries have also taken a hit, lowering the inequality between husbands and wives.

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[MajorClay]

True in my household

[IsailedawayfromFR]

They also control over half the wealth in the country as well.

Mostly because the men die younger from working so hard.

[jmyrlefuller]

And those are just the ones who end up married. One look at the plummeting marriage rate shows the phenomenon to be even worse as women refuse to marry "down" income-wise.