rame of nearly four decades.

 

目前，一项新研究量化了这一趋势。皮尤研究中心的一份基于人口普查数据的研究报告发现，不仅女性的受教育程度比丈夫越来越高，而且在五分之一的婚姻里，妻子还成为家庭的主要生活支柱。这项研究的调查对象是30至44岁之间的夫妇，研究的时间跨度近40年。

 

To be sure, men are still the major contributors of household income - with 78 percent making at least as much or more than their wives - but the percentage of women earning more than their husbands has more than quadrupled, jumping from just 4 percent in 1970 to 22 percent in 2007.

 

诚然，男性仍是家庭收入的主要贡献者，有78%的家庭中男性收入至少与妻子的收入相当，或者高于女性。 但女性收入超过其丈夫的比例，已从1970年的仅仅4%骤升至2007年的22%，是原来的四倍以上。

 

What's more, in 1970, 28 percent of wives had husbands who were better educated, and 20 percent were married to men with less education. By 2007, the comparable figures were 19 percent and 28 percent, according to a New York Times piece on the report. (Slightly more than half of spouses had matching edu

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