The study, conducted by Dr Demid Getik, explores how mental health is related to income make-up within couples by examining the link between annual income rises for women and the number of clinical mental health diagnoses over a set period of time.

The study finds that as more women take on the breadwinner role in the household, the number of mental health related incidences also increases.

As wives begin earning more than their husbands, the probability of receiving a mental health diagnosis increases by as much as 8% for all those observed in the study, but by as much as 11% for the men.

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      “women have a higher chance to develop eating disorders when consuming more social media”

      are gals really upset over this? grow up! jesus

      maybe instead of judging the individual we should look at how traditional societal expectations about gender interact with modern capitalist society and realize that what may have worked to some degree 100 years ago can no longer work today

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        what may have worked to some degree 100 years ago can no longer work today

        Not because there’s a shortage of consumer goods or real estate or daylight hours. Because there’s a shrinking pool of gainful employment and steadily rising costs of living. These are entirely engineered problems, with low wage service sector and gig-work jobs eclipsing higher wage jobs that can sustain a household on a single income.

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      This study doesn’t actually have the data to conclude that. It could simply be these relationships are highly correlated with people who are secure enough to know that seeking therapy is healthy.

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      More like their “provider status” is now poof & women will discard them for an even higher earning husbands

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        women will discard them for an even higher earning husbands

        Isn’t half the problem that “higher earning husbands” are in increasingly short supply?

        Are we predicting a future of patriarchal mega-earners cultivating harems of middle-income working professionals? Or will the skyrocketing cost of living just going to turn the Surplus Males into fodder for our next generation of foreign wars, while an increasing population of lesbians fills in all the office jobs at depressed professional wages?