Live
- All you need to know about PAN 2.0
- Akasa Air redefines travel experience with industry-first offerings
- MP: Residents stage protests against liquor shop in Indore
- Telugu Actor Shri Tej Booked for Alleged Cheating and False Promise of Marriage in Live-in Relationship
- Toyota Kirloskar Motor Celebrates 1 Lakh Urban Cruiser Hyryder on Indian Road
- MLS: New York City FC part ways with head coach Nick Cushing
- Delhi CM says Centre cutting AAP voters’ names from rolls, BJP hits back
- Hyderabad Metro Rail Phase-II Works to Begin in Old City in January 2025
- Odisha: 668 persons killed in human-elephant conflicts in last three years
- DEFENDER JOURNEYS: TO EMBARK ON ITS THIRD EDITION FROM NOVEMBER 2024
Working women good for stable marriage
Highlights
Working Women Good For Stable Marriage
London: Do you earn more than your husband and worry that he won't take it in positive stride? Take heart as this is good for the stability factor in your relationship.
Couples with young children are as likely to stay together if the mother is the main breadwinner rather than the father, shows research.
Couples with young children are as likely to stay together if the mother is the main breadwinner rather than the father, shows research.
“We found that equal earning, and a mother being a main earner, are not destabilising influences on relationships - even at an intense time of childcare responsibilities,” said Shireen Kanji from University of Leicester's school of management in Britain.
Kanji and Pia Schober of the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, examined survey data on 3,944 British couples as their first child aged from eight months to seven years.
The researchers found no significant statistical difference in the risk of relationship break-up if the mother earned more than the father.
They also found that in some instances, couples were more stable if the woman earned more.
The research found that parents who earned approximately the same were no more likely to split up than those where the father earned more, and in some cases were less likely to separate.
For example, for couples with children of school age, the risk of separation fell by about half for those that were married, and by more for those that were unmarried.
“Sociological and economic theories have long predicted that women's increased economic independence would undermine the institution of marriage," said the researchers.
"We found that influential theories that a woman's higher earnings elevate the risk of divorce are unfounded amongst contemporary parents,” they added.
The research breaks new ground in studying the stability of both married and cohabiting parents, said the study published in the journal Sociology.
Kanji and Pia Schober of the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, examined survey data on 3,944 British couples as their first child aged from eight months to seven years.
The researchers found no significant statistical difference in the risk of relationship break-up if the mother earned more than the father.
They also found that in some instances, couples were more stable if the woman earned more.
The research found that parents who earned approximately the same were no more likely to split up than those where the father earned more, and in some cases were less likely to separate.
For example, for couples with children of school age, the risk of separation fell by about half for those that were married, and by more for those that were unmarried.
“Sociological and economic theories have long predicted that women's increased economic independence would undermine the institution of marriage," said the researchers.
"We found that influential theories that a woman's higher earnings elevate the risk of divorce are unfounded amongst contemporary parents,” they added.
The research breaks new ground in studying the stability of both married and cohabiting parents, said the study published in the journal Sociology.
Next Story
ADVERTISEMENT
