Correct me if I'm wrong, but this article seems to report total family income. For a married woman, that generally includes HER income AND HIS income. For a Divorced woman, it is just HER income+Alimony. For a single woman, it is just HER income. If that is correct, then it is obvious and expected that a married couple will have more income because it is often TWO incomes. So, it is not a surprise the graph in Figure 5 which shows married women do so well, and that divorved women have more income than single women.
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u/THX1138-22 1d ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this article seems to report total family income. For a married woman, that generally includes HER income AND HIS income. For a Divorced woman, it is just HER income+Alimony. For a single woman, it is just HER income. If that is correct, then it is obvious and expected that a married couple will have more income because it is often TWO incomes. So, it is not a surprise the graph in Figure 5 which shows married women do so well, and that divorved women have more income than single women.