I actually was dating a guy who wanted me to work less so my paychecks would be smaller because he couldn’t STAND I made significantly more than him. I told him absolutely not and then he said “don’t be surprised if no man wants you then since you’re doing the job of the man to provide”.
It’s definitely not women being insecure about making money lol
So I looked up the article and followed it to the original interview on NPR. It read pretty interesting:
So in 2013, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business published a paper that looked at 4,000 married couples in America. It found that once a woman started to earn more than her husband, divorce rates increased.
So the researchers are kind of looking for theories that can explain that middle bit to see if there really is a causation thing here. So everyone knows, on average, - or at least I think most people know - that American women spend more time on housework than men, about 44 minutes more every day. But here's the weird thing. The researchers found that the gap in housework got even larger when the woman was the primary earner.
So if the woman is earning a lot more money, or just more money, she's doing even more housework?...The gap between how much she's doing versus how much the man is doing is even bigger.
So the author found that a man is more likely to cheat on his partner if he is more financially dependent on her. And men who are completely dependent on their girlfriends or wives are five times more likely to cheat than men who earn the same amount as their partners.
The prevailing theory about the causes for these factors being that when a woman out earns her husband, she does more housework to keep him from feeling emasculated, and he also cheats to feel more masculine.
In a kind of similar vein, I remember some dude telling me that tall girls must feel insecure and embarrassed about their height because guys wouldn’t be interested in dating them. It seems like a lot of times when guys are actually insecure about something, they blame it on women and think they must be embarrassed or ashamed of earning more, being taller, etc when they’re the ones who actually feel inadequate.
I hear a lot of short guys complaining that no girls are interested in them but I also know many short guys who refuse dating girls who are taller because it makes them feel uncomfortable.
LaurynK7 on September 28th, 2019 at 14:45 UTC »
I actually was dating a guy who wanted me to work less so my paychecks would be smaller because he couldn’t STAND I made significantly more than him. I told him absolutely not and then he said “don’t be surprised if no man wants you then since you’re doing the job of the man to provide”.
It’s definitely not women being insecure about making money lol
BoinkBoinkEtAliae on September 28th, 2019 at 14:50 UTC »
So I looked up the article and followed it to the original interview on NPR. It read pretty interesting:
https://www.npr.org/2015/02/08/384695833/what-happens-when-wives-earn-more-than-husbands
The prevailing theory about the causes for these factors being that when a woman out earns her husband, she does more housework to keep him from feeling emasculated, and he also cheats to feel more masculine.
acp231 on September 28th, 2019 at 15:29 UTC »
In a kind of similar vein, I remember some dude telling me that tall girls must feel insecure and embarrassed about their height because guys wouldn’t be interested in dating them. It seems like a lot of times when guys are actually insecure about something, they blame it on women and think they must be embarrassed or ashamed of earning more, being taller, etc when they’re the ones who actually feel inadequate.
I hear a lot of short guys complaining that no girls are interested in them but I also know many short guys who refuse dating girls who are taller because it makes them feel uncomfortable.