Young women are out-earning young men in several U.S. cities

[Matt504]

Lol my girlfriend makes more than you. And I make more than my girlfriend, and you, combined.

High achieving people usually connect with other high achieving people. Your wife may have to take a double shift at Holidae Inn this week, and I don’t judge her or you for that. Or maybe she doesn’t work at all, I wouldn’t judge that either.

How much money does your girlfriend make?

 

[JetFueledThoughts]

How much money does your girlfriend make?

120-40ish

 

[Matt504]

120-40ish

Good on her, I remember my first job.

 

[JetFueledThoughts]

Good on her, I remember my first job.

 

[Starski]

To the women getting it

Spoiler

professional women

 

[DrBanneker]

The family structure isn’t falling apart, plenty of well adjusted families with two working parents. The issue is current times call for a two-income household for most couples, which means men need to step up more at home. While there are some gender norms I even still uphold in my mind, caregiving for kids and “homemaking” aren’t tasks just for women. Two working parents means dad needs to step up and cook dinner also, he needs to be on school pickup as often as mom, he needs to be doing laundry on the weekend as well, or completing homework with the kids on the weeknight. Families that struggle are those that need two parents working and then still offload all the care giving and household chores to the woman. There is give and take in this new setup.

This is how we run our home and my wife earns substantially more than me though our educational attainment is basically the same. But @Gritsngravy isn't wrong about these trends affecting family structure. I hear increasing stories from White friends about younger White female professionals (youngest millenials or oldest Gen Z) having the problems Black women have had for a bout a generation, namely the pool of men, especially in large metros.

When men had the education and income, dating or marrying a woman of a lower educational or economic status wasn't a huge deal unless the gap was big and people may have questioned the decision. But men never had an attitude where they "deserved better" than a less educated or compensated woman and women never had an attitude that a man making more than them was an issue. Unless both genders switch old attitudes where women stop stigmatizing marrying "down" and men stop stigmatizing marrying "up" demographic trends indicate a bumpy road ahead for family formation. This is most pressing in our community but it is hitting other communities though in a delayed fashion. I posted this chart below in TLR last week. Since the mid 90s the WW/WM college education gap has succeeded the BW/BM educated gap and our gap was actually the only one to see some sort of decline. The knock on effects are underway as we speak.

 

[Geek Nasty]

these replies had me double checking if i was in TLR...men really are threatened by the rising independence of women , don't worry, yall still stifling reproductive choice all over this country

Who are you talking to? 3 replies in "yall can't handle strong women!"

 

[JLova]

That's pretty impressive given women actually have to go through having children and going on maternity leave.