Jessica Hermanny on Substack

Fascinating analysis - the tension between vertical assignment and cross-functional collaboration isn’t just in the workplace, ha. I also suspect that in some of the female-breadwinner couples in the study referenced, male partners’ lower incomes correlate with the behavioral reasons for divorce rather than are the primary cause. In other words, higher divorce rates driven not necessarily by well-paid professional wives whose salaries outstrip that of their also well-paid professional husbands, but rather -for an extreme example- by: women working a (often non-glamourous) full-time job while also responsible for housework and childcare, with an alcoholic husband frequently fired from jobs and who is checked out at home, a poor partner overall. Would be very curious if a more detailed data breakdown of the divorce study bears this out.