{"id":68973,"date":"2016-06-07T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=68973"},"modified":"2016-06-01T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:42:41","slug":"25-of-wives-earn-more-than-their-spouses-but-we-probably-shouldnt-call-them-breadwinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/06\/07\/25-of-wives-earn-more-than-their-spouses-but-we-probably-shouldnt-call-them-breadwinners\/","title":{"rendered":"25% of Wives Earn More than Their Spouses, But We Probably Shouldn&#8217;t Call Them &#8220;Breadwinners&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, women are much more likely to earn more income than their spouse than they used to. But this is a shift, not a revolution, because very <em>very<\/em>\u00a0few women are the kind of breadwinner that some men used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Using data on 18-64 year-old married wives and their spouses (95.5% of which were men)\u00a0from Decennial Censuses and the 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipums.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Community Survey<\/a>, here are some facts from 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2014, 25% of wives earn more than their spouses\u00a0(up from 15% in 1990 and 7% in 1970).<\/li>\n<li>The average wife-who-earns-more takes home 68% of the couple\u2019s earnings. The average for higher-earning men\u00a0is 82%.<\/li>\n<li>In 40% of the wife-earns-more couples, she earns less than 60% of the total, compared with 18% for higher earning men.<\/li>\n<li>It is almost 9-times more common for a husband\u00a0to earn all the money than a wife (19.6% versus 2.3%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the distribution of income in married couples (wife ages 18-64; the bars add to 100%):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11859\" src=\"https:\/\/familyinequality.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/coupincdist.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"coupincdist\" width=\"500\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Male and female breadwinners are not equivalent; making $.01 more than your spouse doesn\u2019t make you a 1950s breadwinner, or the \u201cprimary earner\u201d of the family.<\/p>\n<p><em>Philip N. Cohen is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and writes the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyinequality.com\/\">Family Inequality<\/a>, where this post <a href=\"https:\/\/familyinequality.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/31\/why-male-and-female-breadwinners-arent-equivalent-in-one-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\">originally appeared<\/a>. You can follow him on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/familyunequal\">Twitter<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FamilyInequality\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, women are much more likely to earn more income than their spouse than they used to. But this is a shift, not a revolution, because very very\u00a0few women are the kind of breadwinner that some men used to be. Using data on 18-64 year-old married wives and their spouses (95.5% of which were men)\u00a0from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":68974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,36,55,2102,2088,253,272],"class_list":["post-68973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-economics","tag-gender","tag-gender-history","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/06\/4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68976,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68973\/revisions\/68976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}