“It’s 2018, but the fragility of the male ego remains. And seemingly nothing shatters it like a woman who earns more than her husband.
Twenty-nine percent of American wives in heterosexual dual-income marriages earn more than their husbands, according to 2016 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s a trend that’s been increasing over time: In 1987, only 18 percent of wives claimed breadwinner status in marriages where both partners worked. Another BLS report from 2009 showed that women were the sole breadwinners in about 9 percent of married households.
So everyone is celebrating, right? Not so much.”
