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WASHINGTON — Six mil
lion wives — about one out of
eight in the nation — earned
more money than their hus
bands in 1981, the Census
Bureau reported Sunday.
A new bureau study said that
on the average, women earned
an average of 40 percent as
much as their husbands.
“So it is still the atypical case
in which the wife is the major
contributor to the family in
come,” the report said. “But the
number of families relying sole
ly on the husband’s earnings has
declined substantially.”
In 1958, 59 percent of em
ployed husbands were the sole
breadwinner in the United
States. In 1981, the study said,
84 percent were sole earners.
Nearly one-fourth of the
wives who make more money
than their husbands had com
pleted four or more years of col
lege, the report said, and 88 per
cent had more years of school
ing than their husbands.
It said blacks were more likely
than whites or Hispanics to have
a wife as the sole breadwinner or
the spouse with a larger
pave heck.
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Suzanne Bianchi and Daphne
Spain of the bureau’s Center to’-
Demographic Studies, was
based on a special computer
analysis of fit),000 households.
“Wives who earn more than
their husbands are not really
susperstars,” Bianchi said in an
interview. “T hey usually became
the family’s breadwinner be
cause their husbands have prob
lems with their jobs.”
The report, “Wives Who Earn
More Than Their Husbands,”
identified the following types of
husband-wife households, with
their contributions to total fami
ly income:
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Local class registration tonight
Registration for College Station Community Education
courses will be held tonight at the A&M Consolidated High
School Cafetorium. Registration for College Station Resi
dents will begin at 7 p.m. and registration for non-residents
will begin at 7:80 v Late registration will lie held from January
17-20 at the community education office, 109 Timber fromS
a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Caperton to speak to Boy Scouts
Senator Kent Caperton w ill be the keynote speaker at the
appreciation banquet of the arrowmoon district Boy Scouts
January 19 at 7 p.m. in the Bryan Highschool Cafeteria.The
public is invited to attend the awards ceremony, and tickets ■™ M , r , u . 1
will be available at the door.
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May graduates and graduates of the College of Veterin'
ary Medicine must order graduation invitations before Feb
ruary 8. Invitations may he ordered Monday-Friday fromS
a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Finance Center on the second
floor of the Memorial Student Center.
CS recreation supervisors needed
I he College Station Parks and Recreation department is
now interviewing instructors for Spring classes and recrea
tion supervisors for Summer day camps. Apply at City Hall
or call 764-3778 for more information.
Assistant dean for business named
Dr. Dan H. Robertson took his new position as the assis-
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tant dean and the director of the master’s program in «■«
College of Business on January 1. Prior to the promotion,
Robertson served as the head of the marketing department
His professional experience includes six years with Baxter
I ravenol and Proctor and Gamble in marketing and salesas
well as chairman of the marketing department at Georgia
State University.
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