men are unhappy when they earn less than their wives

Men who earn less than their partner tend to resent the situation, while the opposite isn’t true, according to a new study. Unlike previous research on the impact of the pay gap, “we studied the effects of recent changes in the relative income level within couples and transitions on the labor market”, write researchers from the City University of London, published in SAGE.

40,000 British families

Based on a longitudinal study, they found this out “Men express an amplification of their happiness in response to a recent increase in their income relative to that of their wives.” IS : “For women, the change in proportional income had no effect on their joie de vivre. We also find that men earning less than their wives report lower personal satisfaction than men earning the same or more salary as their wives. while such differences were not observed for women “.

To come to these conclusions, academics analyzed surveys conducted among a group of 40,000 British families under the program Longitudinal study of households in the UK. The data was collected between 2009 and 2017.

In full-time equivalent, French women receive 18.5% less than men

In France, wage disparities between men and women are still a reality. In full-time equivalent, women earn 18.5% less than men, according to INSEE. The feminist collective Les Glorieuses thus calculated that, by comparing this difference with the average annual salary, French women work voluntarily from 4 November until the end of 2020.