I was talking to a friend this week about finances and how significantly better her situation became once she met her husband. While older than her, he works in the same field but makes significantly more than she does.
This got me thinking that over the past 2 years I have had several of my female friends experience the same thing. Once relegated to living paycheck to paycheck as I now do, they no longer are in the same sinking boat with me. And both were "saved" by their significant others who makes 3-4 times more than they do and are the same age +/- 2-3 years. One friend works in banking and the other in multimedia production (holding a Masters in Technical Communication), so they are not in the predetermined "female chosen professions". Which in itself angers me that those professions are deemed less valuable and shows our priorities...money and greed over education and wealth.
This gives me very little hope for myself and is pushing me even harder to finish my manuscript (yes I am writing a book...hopefully a series of them). I would like to get to the underlying issue of why women are making so much less and are only able to lift themselves out of debt and scrimping upon meeting a man with comparable education and social standing but happens to make a shitload more money. There seems to be something wrong with this picture.
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