Women Breadwinners Are the Secret Husbands AND Wives Like to Keep
Breadwinning wives—and their husbands—still feel the need to keep it top secret.
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Hannah Lopalio* is a nurse who makes more money than her husband. "I keep it hush hush,” she says with a laugh. “It doesn’t bother me, per se, but I just don’t think it’s appropriate for people to know.”
Hannah isn’t alone. Her silence is startlingly common and indicative of a strange paradox in the U.S.: As the number of women who outearn their husbands has steadily increased over the years, our
