"A Recipe for Disaster?": Female-Breadwinner Relationships Threaten Heterosexual Scripts.
Female breadwinner relationships (FBRs) occur when a woman earns more money than her male romantic partner. In four studies, we used diverse methods to document the threat that FBRs pose to heterosexual scripts (i.e., social conventions for heterosexual romance). First, a reflexive thematic analysis...
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