Women are better educated than their husbands, a new Pew study reports — and increasingly out-earning them. While The New York Times’ has taken a dim view of the buzzed-about study, “The New Economics of Marriage: The Rise of Wives” — arguing that women are the overworked, under-romanced “victims” of this role reversal — other commentators see proof that women can now enjoy new power as "sugar mamas," coveted by under-earning men. What's the reality?
Men have it better than ever: “Millennial moms” scramble to balance dueling duties of work and home, Petula Dvorak says in The Washington Post, while American husbands work less, live longer, and reap “benefits of wives who are bringing home the big bucks.” A boon for women? Hardly. It's still “a man’s world, only a little more comfy these days.”
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