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A few women will be surprised when they learned that even when wives earn the same or more couples, a new study of the Pew Research Center has found that they are still spending more time in homework and child care, while their husbands spend longer at paid and entertainment work.
“Even evenly financial contributions have become more equal to marriages, the way couples divide their time between paid work and home life are still unbalanced,” Pio.
So who earns what?
Pew found that in 29 % of marriages of two different sexes today, women and men earn the same (about 60,000 dollars each). “The couples in equality marriages spend about 3.5 hours a week more entertainment activities than wives. Wives in these marriages spend approximately two hours a week to provide care more than the husbands do and about 2.5 hours in homework,” the study indicates.
In 55 % of the corresponding sex marriages, men are essential or only isolated, and they get an average of $ 96,000 for their wives of $ 30,000.
Meanwhile, in 16 % of marriages, wives outperform their husbands as the basic breadwinner (10 %) or the only family (6 %). In these marriages, women earn average of $ 88,000 to $ 35,000 for their husbands.
Of all these categories, the only category in which men are said to spend more time to provide more care than their wives when the woman is the only family. The time that the week spends on homework is divided into these marriages equally between husbands and wives.
In all cases, it is a major change for 50 years – when couples, for example, the primary breadwinner in 85 % of marriages.
Today, which women are likely to be of primary or only insulation can vary depending on age, family, education and race.
For example, Bio found that black women are “more likely” than other women to earn more than their husbands. For example, 26 % of black women bring more than their husbands, while only 17 % of white women and 13 % of Latin women do.
But black women with a university degree or higher, and a few children at home are also among the most likely to earn the same husbands.
These numbers are reported against the background of society’s positions about who should gain more and how care should be divided between spouses.
Nearly half of the Americans (48 %) said in the Pio survey that couples prefer to earn more than their wives, while 13 % of men said they prefer their wives to earn them almost like them.
What do women want? Twenty -two percent of Americans said that most women want a husband earning more, while 26 % said that most of them wanted a man to gain himself.
Meanwhile, when it comes to a family, 77 % said that children are better when both parents focus equally on their job and child care. Only 19 % said that children are better when their mother focuses more on home life and their father focuses more on his job.
PEW study relies on three data sources: profit data from the current population survey in the United States; Data from the survey of the use of American time and a representative survey at the national levels of public positions between 5152 American adults that were held in January.