“This is really something that’s been building and there’s no reason that I can see why it won’t continue [or] go over 50 per cent,” says Liza Mundy, a journalist for the Washington Post and author of the forthcoming book The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family. In fact, the momentum has prompted Mundy and observers like her to ask one very loaded question about the future: “Could we get to a world where that becomes the norm—where if the wife is working she’s likely out-earning her husband?”


In reading a recent article on the growing phenomenon of Women bread winners (now at about 35 % of couples and rising steadily) i was very pleased that this growing trend is breaking into the mainstream media but I had a few thoughts of my own (not surprisingly).  While the article i feel strikes the right tone in praising this growing trend and even predicting that this will soon be the new normal in the majority of F/m relationships i was struck by some of the discussion about the problems this is causing in some relationships. It seem to me in virtually all instances where this becomes an issue it really is the mans fault. The problems seem to break into two groups. One where the males ego is bruised by his Wife/Girlfriends seeming ease in out-earning and out-advancing him and the other occurring when he does not take on a share of the domestic duties consummate with his role as the lesser earner. It seems some males just don’t get the idea that if She is doing the work to support the couple economically then he should be doing the support on the home front to compensate (cooking, cleaning, errands etc). I noticed that this seem to be a problem, at least in the couples profiled, among somewhat older couples (40+ or maybe closer to 50+). I wonder if younger males in their teens, 20’s and 30’s feel the same way? After all these guys are by now well used to being outclassed by Females in school and in a growing number of professions. They, i imagine, would be far more amicable to this new world order, having grown up in an Alpha-Female world were they are surrounded by hyper-smart, ambitious, focused Girls (a Girl-Power culture if you will). i guess like all change there will always be a certain level of friction but it seems to me the faster males get with the new program the more harmonious our societies and relationships will be.