Julia Carpenter
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3,850 appearances
71 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2019
last heard Sep 2024
Julia Carpenter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, both partners really have to be maximizing their income potential.
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We've seen this slow growth.
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Women are attending college more.
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Women are gaining advanced degrees.
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And as a result, they're better positioned to land these higher-paying jobs.
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We've seen a pretty dramatic reversal of that trend.
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So the 80s, we saw the number drop slightly.
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And then for couples married in the 90s, the divorce rate for those with female breadwinners was 4% higher than male breadwinners.
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So a pretty significant drop.
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So researchers point to a couple different things.
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There's social factors, of course, you know, greater acceptance of women in the workplace, greater advancement of women in the workplace, husbands feeling less threatened by women earning more.
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But there's also economic factors.
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You know, it used to be that single family could subsist off of one breadwinner.
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It was ideal that one person would work and one person would stay at home.
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Now, both partners really have to be maximizing their income potential in order for these families to reach these milestones that were once much more easily accessible.
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It's pretty significant for parents.
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I think that's where most people can see their household balance sheets change most dramatically.
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Childcare costs really vary depending on where you live.
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But as of the most recent numbers, daycare can cost anywhere from $8,000 a year to nearly $20,000 a year.
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So that's a significant cost for many parents.
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