Official SWT academic evidence
Discussion
"According to a report researched at the London School of Economics and published by the Centre for Policy Studies, women are more determined than ever to bag a partner who will improve their financial prospects"
http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/Feminist%20Myths...
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Myth 9: Women prefer to earn their own living and hate financial dependence on men
One indicator of women’s lifestyle preferences is found in patterns of educational homogamy: whether women choose husbands with equal levels of education, or prefer a bettereducated and higher-earning spouse.
Women’s aspiration to marry up, if they can, to a man who is better-educated and higher-earning, persists in most European countries. The Nordic countries share this pattern with all other
parts of Europe. Women thereby continue to use marriage as an alternative or supplement to their employment careers.
Financial dependence on a man has lost none of its attractions after the equal opportunities revolution. Symmetrical family roles are not the ideal sought by most couples, even though they are
popular among the minority of highly educated professionals.
It is thus not surprising that wives generally earn less than their husbands, and that most couples rationally decide that it makes sense for her to take on the larger share of childcare, and use
most or all the parental leave allowance. This is just as true of the Nordic countries as elsewhere. For example in Norway, only one-third of mothers have earnings roughly equal to the father’s
earnings (up to one-quarter less), and two-thirds of wives earn far less than their spouse, in part because many work part-time.
There is thus no incentive to share parental leave."
http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/Feminist%20Myths...
"
Myth 9: Women prefer to earn their own living and hate financial dependence on men
One indicator of women’s lifestyle preferences is found in patterns of educational homogamy: whether women choose husbands with equal levels of education, or prefer a bettereducated and higher-earning spouse.
Women’s aspiration to marry up, if they can, to a man who is better-educated and higher-earning, persists in most European countries. The Nordic countries share this pattern with all other
parts of Europe. Women thereby continue to use marriage as an alternative or supplement to their employment careers.
Financial dependence on a man has lost none of its attractions after the equal opportunities revolution. Symmetrical family roles are not the ideal sought by most couples, even though they are
popular among the minority of highly educated professionals.
It is thus not surprising that wives generally earn less than their husbands, and that most couples rationally decide that it makes sense for her to take on the larger share of childcare, and use
most or all the parental leave allowance. This is just as true of the Nordic countries as elsewhere. For example in Norway, only one-third of mothers have earnings roughly equal to the father’s
earnings (up to one-quarter less), and two-thirds of wives earn far less than their spouse, in part because many work part-time.
There is thus no incentive to share parental leave."
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