Blog BanRep | Income and Unpaid Work Gaps within Households
Although the salary gap that favors men over women is well known, there is little discussion as to what happens in the opposite case, i.e., when a woman earns more than a man at a household. This new Blog entry deals with this and other related issues.
Publication Date:
Friday, 03 June 2022
15:57
Although the existence of wage gaps that favor men over women is well known and is explained by multiple factors, there is little discussion of what happens in the opposite case when the women in the households earn more money than the men. In particular, international studies suggest that heterosexual couples tend to avoid situations in which the woman earns more money than her spouse because under traditional gender roles the man earns more money than the woman. For example, women have been found to reduce their hours in order to not exceed men's earnings and thus avoid gender role reversal.
