{"id":5869,"date":"2016-09-08T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2016-09-14T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:41:54","slug":"women-work-and-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/09\/08\/women-work-and-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Work, and Well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More and more women are becoming the primary income earner for their families. Conservative commentators have been quick to claim that women working and earning more than their male partners has negative effects on marriages, children, and the home. But new research shows that both men and women are happier when the <\/span>woman<\/span><\/i> is the primary breadwinner.<\/span><\/p>\n

As described in a Washington Post <\/span>article<\/span><\/a>, sociologist\u00a0Christin Munsch<\/a> found that men who bring in a larger share of household income are more likely to have <\/span>low<\/span>\u00a0psychological and physical well-being scores. However, when women\u00a0bring in a larger share of household income, both men <\/span>and <\/span><\/i>women reported higher\u00a0scores. Though this finding seems to defy conventional wisdom, it is driven by gender norms, as Munch explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGendered expectations often pull people into making different career decisions … Men are more likely to blindly take on responsibilities with work because they\u2019re associated with more income. Women are more likely to ask: Do I like this? Do I want to do this?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, women are more likely to take a high-paying job because they\u2019re interested in the work. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to feel that they <\/span>have<\/span><\/i> to take a stressful, high-income job because that\u2019s their role. These new findings show that changing long-held gendered expectations surrounding work and earnings is in everyone\u2019s best interest. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More and more women are becoming the primary income earner for their families. Conservative commentators have been quick to claim that women working and earning more than their male partners has negative effects on marriages, children, and the home. But new research shows that both men and women are happier when the woman is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,33,13],"tags":[2401,39114,39113,27102,76],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-health","category-inequality","tag-breadwinner","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-well-being","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}