Are Black Women Winning The Battle Of The Sexes?

For a long time it was an understood rule that men were to be the breadwinners in their marriages.
While men were expected to “marry down” in terms of finances, women were inversely expected to “marry up,” by finding the man most likely and able to out-earn, and take care of them. This has been the status-quo in our society for quite some time, though it seems that the tide is turning.
According to ABC News, a new trend is emerging, whereby women are marrying down, and choosing husbands that are not their superior or even their equal in terms of financial earnings, education and career potential. A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that 1 out of 5 American women out-earn their husband and almost 1 in 3 is better educated.
The study uses mega-couple Jay-Z and Beyonce as its example. Jay-Z made an impressive 35 million last year, but still, Beyonce nearly tripled that figure, pulling in an estimated 87 million.
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The study goes on to say that marriage as a whole is an institution on the decline, particularly among African-Americans. While 62% of them between the ages of 30 and 44 were married in 1970, only 33% had tied the knot in 2007. In this case, the link between success and marriage is much more pronounced. One opinion in the ABC segment suggested that since Black women are attaining college degrees, climbing the corporate ladder and owning businesses more than ever before, the “number of comparable mates is slim.”
Its official, the home really is no longer the man’s castle; increasingly, its hers too.
What’s your opinion on this study?
To watch the ABC News segment go here.
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keepitmovin-33
3-18-2010 8:56 am
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straight1
3-15-2010 3:39 am
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Blkc00kie
2-21-2010 4:12 pm
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doing_me74
1-29-2010 1:18 pm
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kaikai7
1-27-2010 9:38 pm
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felicebois
1-26-2010 11:21 pm
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Mr_Patches
1-26-2010 11:09 pm
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Paneiro1
1-26-2010 9:20 pm
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momono3
1-26-2010 7:39 pm
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Paneiro1
1-26-2010 6:37 pm
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msveevee1
1-26-2010 1:31 pm
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Here is something very interesting, women have come a long way from the 70s to current day society. No longer is the man the breadwinner in most relationships, in today’s society women typically make more than men in most relationships. Whats interesting its that the drive in women has been stronger than the drive in men. When men were young , most did something stupid and did some time, garnered some felonies and ruined the rest of their lives. Not all black men by no means took this route, but statistics don’t lie and the prison records reveal more in dept details. Women have normally proved to be the cooler of the two genders, there are some stalkers, killers etc. but generally its the men who take the long ride to the correctional facility. Now here we are in 2010 and time has changed but the story is the same. THE MAN IS HOLDING ME DOWN! I am an American male, from African descent as i was told. No one is holding us down, brothers stop using excuses for everyday occurrences. Life goes on and the status quo doesn’t apply to me. I hate when people use that excuse. It shows weakness in our structure and then we are generalized. I don’t believe in how we interact with each other, its like we are doomed from lack of education with the language we call each other. The bottom line is this, there are an ocean of opportunities for everybody regardless of race. Stop making excuses and change your habits. I am the breadwinner in my relationship, i started a business and 9 years later the next generation will enjoy fruits of the labor created by hard work. It wasn’t a degree that did it but rather the dislike for the crying brothers who didn’t want anything out of life. Grow up!
straight1
After reading some of the comments here two of the people here make valid points. I agree with Paneiro1 that articles like these are made to pump the over inflatuated egos of women, because they can’t stand to see men making more money than them so they want to do whatever they can to change that. I also agree with doing_me74 that since women are equal now that they can start paying for dates more instead of the men having to pay all the time. Lets see how they like making more than the men now that they have to spend more on them.
Blkc00kie
Its true, I was dating this chick who is only 6 months older than me. She is almsot done getting her bachelors at USC
I’m almost starting community o.o
She is turning 21 in 6 months, I turned 20 today…
doing_me74
I love it because its pimping is when a man can get a female with money to spend cash on him this makes the gigolo game better too for professional gigolo when it was a white mans game only. Since women are equal now they can pay for the first date etc.I’m loving it the game is to be sold so a female got to pay up if she want a man
kaikai7
Hey in a relationship someone is going to make more than the other person ,and who says it has to be a man? This is 2010 women are doing the d^amn thang! If a woman meets a man, who happens to make less, even alot less but he but treats her well and is secure enough to be in a relationship where his woman makes more so be it! There will probably emerge a larger segment of men in society playing the role of “Mr Mom”, traditionally reserved for women, staying home raising their children why wife brings home the bacon and frys it,lol. A man has to be secure with himself and the women has to be content to allow her man to be a man and respect him no less because he’s not on her salary level for this to work.
felicebois
I’m show glad to be a Black woman. http://www.moderndayblackmomma.com
Mr_Patches
I wouldn’t marry a woman who makes more money than me. I just wouldn’t feel right.
Paneiro1
Articles like this one along with 99% of all the other articles on this site are made to pump the already over inflatulated egos of todays black women, giving them an even more false sense of reality. Too many of todays black women love to brag and be superficial, thats y the battle of the sexes even exists, otherwise a man even considering to brag to someone about his income especially to a woman wouldn’t even be part of his social psychology
momono3
bragging about a battle of the sexes between black folks is like bragging about beating up your 99 year old great-grandmother. Who is the winner and why would you do it? Whoever said there is a set up to hold black men back and allow black women to go through, had it half way right. Black men are held back, but so are black women. The plan is to deny a black man a job, then when he files for govt assistanc the family is denied because he lives with them. so he moves. he feels bad around his kids because he has no money, so they don’t see him often which has a domino effect. but when a black man does have a job, money and something to offer his family, he is the best, most providing and attentive father in the world.
Paneiro1
Where does this myth come from that black men wanna b taken care of by some woman, growing up with a black mother that would b the last thing a black man wanted. If thats how the men you chose to date operated and you don’t support that idea then thats your fault. The black men you chose not to date are the ones that lead to statistics showing that black men still make more money in the black community. Second why would any man want to take care of todays black woman yall have just as much opportunity of being successful as we do if not more, that together with the fact that todays women bring nothing to the table that men want. In a business deal (which is the way most black women view relationships and marriage) in order to get what you want from the other party you have to have something of equal value to that party to offer and todays woman doesnt have it so the best you can do nowadays is 50/50 when it comes to expenses if a man even wants to engage in an act like that with todays woman, because in the end he is still LOSING OUT and not getting what he wants.
msveevee1
Well I’mma put it to you short and simple…black women ARE prevailing bcuz the system is set up to entrap the black men while the black women move up. The sad thing is that black men allow themselves to be kept down by this systemical society and the fact that white men hated the strong black men of our ancestors, but allowed black women to get by. Even if that meant stripping the black men from the family and allowing her to have multiple kids by multiple men but allow them to be taken care of by the system. Women are fools if they accept the fact that bcuz black men don’t step up to their responsibilities that it should stop women from advancing in life. I say I don’t care how many kids you got. Don’t let that fact alone cause you not to achieve in life and make something of yourself. Same thing for how you was raised. It’s nice to know that there’s women out there that are willing to strive for some success despite of their upbringing or background. Black men have too much pride, want too much for free and have become too lazy by regressing to infancy. Wanting a woman to take care of THEM instead of THEM taking care of HER. So of course women are the rulers of this world. We only LET the men THINK that they. Now take a good look around…look at what this world has become.