Re:Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Emp...
by klipt on Friday July 29, 2016 @05:06PM
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> The only valid point is ownership of property
Except it's not true: http://www.businessinsider.com/women-now-control-more-than-h...
Re:Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Emp...
by gizmo on Friday July 29, 2016 @05:43PM
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They control most of the wealth according to that non-academic report (the report is an advertisement for wealth management services), and I couldn't find an academic study that came up with a similar number. I should also note that the report doesn't say US women possess 51% of the wealth, they just "control" it, whatever that means.
Women do not accumulate wealth at an equal rate to men, one reason is that their salary is much lower (wage gap). A second reason is that most single parents are women and that pushes the wealth distribution for women further down.
In terms of ownership it's closer to 36%.
http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/shortchanged-women-and-...
It's especially bad for unmarried women who have about half the wealth of unmarried men. When you take race/ethnicity into account the gap is even wider.
http://globalpolicysolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/...
Re:Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Emp...
by exstudent2 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @09:54AM
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The "wage gap" has been debunked many times over. Can we please put an end to using it in arguments? Here's one of many examples: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whats-the-real-gende...
Re:Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Emp...
by DefaultUserHN on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:50PM
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On the topic of ownership of property, yes, the guy owns the property. That is, until she divorce him, then she owns half his properties. LOL.
In other word, she already owned half his property, he just didn't realized it until she divorced him. Hahaha.
The only valid point is ownership of property, and I agree with it - although I don't want it to be more fairly distributed across sex, but rather across the whole population (the fact that owners are the 1% gives them much more power than the fact that they're white).