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US Women Now Make as Much or More Than Men in Half of Marriages
College-educated and Black women are more likely to out-earn their husbands.In almost half of opposite-sex marriages in the US, women now earn at least as much or more than their husbands.
Nearly one-third of wives earn roughly the same amount as their husbands, while the woman is the primary or sole breadwinner in 16% of marriages, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday. Combined, that’s a record high and a threefold surge from 50 years ago, when four in five households relied primarily on the man’s income.