Study: More Women Making More Money

MINNEAPOLIS - Times are a changing and so is marriage. New research shows more and more women are making more money than their husbands, which is a huge shift in the last 40 years.

In 1970, only four percent of women made more money than their husbands. By 2007, that number grew to 22 percent. According to one local expert, it's likely to be even higher today.

At Tuesday evening's cooking class at Kitchen Window in uptown, there are a good number of men, including a few married couples.

Nick and Marina Jepson have been married 18 years. Neither was surprised to hear the latest numbers from the Pew Research Center that the percentage of women making more money than their husbands was growing.

"Sometimes, the guy is a better home keeper and sometimes if women go out to work, it's better for him to stay at home," said Mrs. Jepson.

Hamline University Business Professor Jenny Keil studies women in the workplace, focusing on gender pay differential.

"Ideally, when men and women are qualified to work, they should work and we should do everything we can to encourage it, the better off we will be," said Keil.

Pew Research Center Findings

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress