Women's Increasing Salary Impact on Marriage
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Women’s increasing salary impact on marriage
During the time of World War II many women had to leave the home and go out to work. Many were left home alone with husband out in the field fighting and dying for the country. Women had to leave the family at home and support the family financially. Which previously it was thought to be mans’ responsibility. It was here the acceleration of the female revolution took flight. Women were now becoming able to vote. Women were not considered equal they began to share and complete the same responsibilities.
Women enjoyed the freedom of making their own money and having obligations outside the home. When the men who survived came back from war, few women returned back to the role of just house wife. It soon became necessary for two incomes in the families. The spending habits of these family risen due to the upsurge of income to the households. It then became a game of “keeping up with the Jones” and competition between neighbors on who can obtain the newest industrial item.
Salary before the 1980’s for women ages twenty four to thirty five earned less than sixty cents per each males dollar. The salary which ranges from the 1980’s to the twenty first century, women ages twenty four to thirty five now earn at least eighty cents per each male’s dollar. Women in economics with Ph.D.'s, for example, earn between 95 percent and 99 percent as much as male with the same experience and education. More women are staying in school longer and go back for higher education to obtain degrees which also contribute to the increase in pay.
How does this affect the family? Many children were left home alone and unsupervised. Although there is a fall in reproduction there has been a rise in teen age pregnancy. Women were going to back to school and working so the children were without the supervision that their parents received.
Many of the husband had insecurities because their role of bread winner is now being shared and some case turned over to the wife. Women began to realized that she can be a good provider, wives began to choose divorce over unfelt marriage. Females were never able to give that idea a chance just fifty years ago. Due increase in divorce, there was also an increase in single mothers. According
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