[donna]

Men more likely to cheat on female breadwinner
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The study found that men who are economically dependent on their female partners are more likely to cheat on them. What’s more, the results proved to be quite the opposite when gender and breadwinner roles were reversed.

Women dependent on male partners were less likely to cheat, according to research presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta.

http://lifestyle.ca.msn.com/health-fitness/news/canadianpress-article.aspx?cp-documentid=25218831

[paudio]

More likely because in most traditional cultures, males are expected to be the breadwinner. Having a wife with higher income may lead to some insecurity because it challenges his notion of self. One way to deal with this insecurity is to show that he can still be a player in dating scene.

It depends on the norms that both the husband and wife have. If the husband holds more rigid norms of male as breadwinner, it's more difficult for him to accept. If it's the wife who holds more rigid norms, she'd make efforts to 'ease' the possible tensions by still doing chores at home, to give an impression that the husband is still the 'king'. In fact, statistics show that. If men work, on average they spend less hours on household chores. If women work, they still maintain the hours on chores or probably reduce the hours--but not to the level when the men work.