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Size Does Matter After All: Her Bigger Paycheck May Drive Him to Cheat Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2010. Also: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/17/news/la-heb-infidelity-20100816 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Keyword(s): Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; Income Level; Racial Differences; Sexual Activity; Unemployment; Wage Differentials Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Being in a relationship with a female partner who earns more than he does can make a man feel less of a man, Cornell University sociologist Christin Munsch told colleagues Monday in Atlanta, Ga., at the annual confab of the American Sociological Assn. To affirm and restore his battered sense of manhood, a man may feel he needs to go outside the relationship in search of sexual conquest, she said. Combing through the responses of a nationally representative sample collected in the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the last such survey to have been done, Munsch found that for men who ranked low in terms of their economic dependence on a female partner, the probability of infidelity was relatively low. With every upward click of Munsch's measure of male economic dependence on a female partner, men were more likely to cheat. (Excerpts from newspaper article) |
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Healy, Melissa. "Size Does Matter After All: Her Bigger Paycheck May Drive Him to Cheat." Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2010. |