Here’s a quick addition to some old posts on breadwinners (here and here).
Nowadays, women are much more likely to earn more income than their husbands do. But this is a shift, not a revolution, because very very few women are the kind of breadwinner that men used to be.
Using data on 18-64 year-old married wives (and their husbands*) from Decennial Censuses and the 2014 American Community Survey (via IPUMS.org), here are some facts from 2014:
- In 2014, 25% of wives earn more than their spouses (up from 15% in 1990 and 7% in 1970).
- The average wife-who-earns-more takes home 68% of the couple’s earnings. The average for higher-earning husbands is 82%.
- In 40% of the wife-earns-more couples, she earns less than 60% of the total, compared with 18% for husbands.
- It is almost 9-times more common for a husband to earn all the money than a wife (19.6%…
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