1. 14 Ways an Economist says I love you...with graphical representations.
2. A dissertation defense for the M.R.S. The article is a mix of reporting on marital and education research with a defense of marriages where women are more educated (and/or higher earners). With women earning more college degrees, the latter is going to happen with or without the encouragement.
The men most likely to feel emotional and physical distress when their wives have a higher status or income tend to be those who are more invested in their identity as breadwinners than as partners and who define success in materialistic ways. Both these traits are associated with lower marital quality. Few women really want to marry a man whose penis rises and falls in tandem with the size of his paycheck or the prestige of his diploma.
3. Serious economic power couple. Their nanny makes 50k?!? Tempting.
Hat tips: DJS, BJSA, BGM, CB
2. A dissertation defense for the M.R.S. The article is a mix of reporting on marital and education research with a defense of marriages where women are more educated (and/or higher earners). With women earning more college degrees, the latter is going to happen with or without the encouragement.
The men most likely to feel emotional and physical distress when their wives have a higher status or income tend to be those who are more invested in their identity as breadwinners than as partners and who define success in materialistic ways. Both these traits are associated with lower marital quality. Few women really want to marry a man whose penis rises and falls in tandem with the size of his paycheck or the prestige of his diploma.
3. Serious economic power couple. Their nanny makes 50k?!? Tempting.
Hat tips: DJS, BJSA, BGM, CB