Married to Mrs. Moneybags
What Will Happen to Coupledom When Most Women Out-Earn Their Male Partners?
“Do women become bad wives and unpleasant partners when they have not only a room of their own but an income of their own?” asked journalist Liza Mundy, who was speaking to a large audience at MOCA Grand Avenue. “And, in the event that their income exceeds that of their partner, do they become even more domineering and unpleasant?” The questions seemed more funny than provocative, and yet Mundy, author of The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family, opened her talk …
