CAP, in partnership with Maria Shriver, has a giant report out called “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything” about the role of women in the modern economy. There’s tons of stuff in there, but I thought I would just pull out this factoid from Heather Boushey’s chapter in the volume.
In broad terms, this is about what you would expect. The change over time has been really large and that’s worth keeping in mind. It’s also interesting that older mothers and mothers with college degrees earn substantially more relative to their husbands than do younger or less-educated mothers. There’s something of a move afoot to try to convince women that they need to reverse the recent trend toward delaying marriage and motherhood, but the statistics seem to indicate that this would be not-so-wise.
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