Could You Be With A Woman Who Makes More Than You?

So anyway, so here's the thing.

Um, so there's some changes happen.

As the world changes, uh, the structure of marriage and all that changes.

So the data of what's going on, Black women are now, uh, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, Black women are now the most educated demographic in America.

Yeah.

More Black women hold, uh, college and graduate degrees than any other group.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, which means the income gap is gonna be a, a little bit higher in some of these relationships, because, you know, if you have a degree, if you have a master's degree, certainly-

Sure

... um, those in-

You-

... those incomes are rising faster

... your propensity to earn money is higher.

Yeah.

Those incomes are rising faster than Black men's over the past two decades.

Right.

Um, now, there becomes a psychological barrier.

Women, uh, consistently report, uh, reluctance to date men who earn significantly less than they do.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, this preference cuts-

How's that working out?

... cuts across race, but, um-

Hmm.

So yeah, so that's one aspect.

So there's a couple complications.