What is surprising about that, however, is that it would stand to reason that hardworking girls, when grown up, would get better paying positions than the men who spent their teenage years goofing around and drinking beer. But men still don't like their wives to earn more than them according to a recent study conducted by Marianne Bertrand, Emir Kamenica and Jessica Pan at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
The findings show that it is not only the husbands who are unhappy in these marriages where the women earn more. The women are also far from content. The study found that when a wife earns more than her husband, the risk of divorce rises, too. It also caused marriage rates to drop.
Women continue to outperform men in school, so more high-earning women are on their way. The solution to bridge the gap therefore seems glaringly obvious, doesn't it?
