Harvard study: Women more likely to divorce men who don't live up to the breadwinner stereotype

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12. I think the stereotype goes back to the agricultural revolution

when suddenly men were doing the bulk of the heavy work and women were no longer providing 80-90% of the caloric intake as they had been in hunter-gatherer societies. It's ingrained and long standing. Men who have been incapable of living up to it for one reason or another feel it most acutely.

Unemployed women are still working, after all, since they still tend to do the bulk of the housework and child care.