July

Six charts demonstrate a renewed progress towards gender equality starting around 2006.

Husbands and wives who share similar levels of education now enjoy a lower risk of divorce than those in which husbands have more education—a trend consistent with a shift toward egalitarian marriages.

The growing wage premium for long work hours slows progress toward gender equality. If the relative hourly wages for overwork had stayed constant between 1979 and 2007, the gender wage gap would be about 10 percent smaller than it is today.

The Council on Contemporary Families released the "Gender Revolution Rebound Symposium" as public support for working mothers and dual-earner families. New research suggests that in marriages formed since the early 1990s, men and women are much happier with non-traditional arrangements than in the past.

A brief report that examines sexual frequency among younger couples in equal marriages and refutes recent claims that sharing housework equally is damaging to a couple’s sex life.