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Beth Greenfield, Nina Ajemian

Female breadwinners represent just 16% of all households, but account for 42% of divorces

Worried couple sitting back to back on sofa at home (Credit: Getty Images)

Good morning! Columbia gives in to Trump's demands to recover federal funding, women's college basketball could still be undervalued, and Fortune reporter Beth Greenfield examines what happens when women are the breadwinners.

- Money problems. Women earn just 84 cents to every dollar earned by a man. And yet, despite that disadvantage, the share of married women who were earning at least as much as their husbands had more than tripled by 2023 over five decades, found Pew Research.

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