There was a lot of press about the Pew study, which found that 4 in 10 women are the primary breadwinners. Bryce Covert does a good job unpacking those findings. She correctly points out that those numbers don’t mean that married women are earning more than their spouses. Those numbers reflect the growing number of single mother households and, in fact, single mothers earn consideably less than married couples.
So, this study isn’t necessary great news.
Apt. 11d 
The report I heard up here this morning, interestingly, said that Canada is tracking about the same…but without the same number of single-family households. I haven’t had a chance to look into it more deeply than that but might make for an interesting comparison.
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I refuse to learn anything about Canada until somebody either puts up a video of a mayor smoking crack or disappoints me with the knowledge that there never was such a video. If they had that video and lost it, I’m going to have to ignore Canada forever.
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i dunno, the anecdata in my workplace is that all the women make more than their spouses. Even the attorneys–the female partners have spouses who either don’t work (disability) or work in public service making less money. Each of the married or partnered heterosexual staff makes more than their male partner. Maybe it’s a West Coast thing?
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