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Fortune
Megan Leonhardt

American women are increasingly the breadwinner

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More women are bringing home the bread.

The share of married women who are earning at least as much as their husbands has more than tripled in the last five decades. Now, wives are on equal or even greater financial parity in nearly half of U.S. marriages. 

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