When the wife brings home more, is a couple OK?
One in three married women earns more than her husband. How do couples handle it when the wife is the main breadwinner? In their May release, Bringing Home the Bacon: Making Marriage Work When She Makes More Money (William Morrow, $24.95), couples therapist Harriet Pappenheim and award-winning journalist Ginny Graves talked to more than 100 women and men and offer advice for when the wife brings home the bigger paycheck. They talked about their book in an e-mail interview: What’s behind this trend? Ms. Graves: Women are now earning more college and professional degrees than men. Some men who had been the breadwinners are losing their jobs – and their wives are taking over that responsibility. Ms. Pappenheim: Survival. The high divorce rate in the United States leaves many women with children in poverty. Many women know they must be able to support themselves and their children. What inspired you to write this book? Ms. Graves: A Newsweek cover story on the topic cited that 30 percent o
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