it's a blatant injustice, and I'm always upset about it: Girls get better grades at school than boys and also graduate from high school. But later, women earn on average 21 percent less than men. What is going wrong?
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A particularly exciting explanation for this is given by a recent study by the British University of Bath: It could be due to the extremely sensitive psyche of men, to the male mimosa soul, which is simply overwhelmed by a well-paid wife.
I know it's hard to believe, but being too high in the wife obviously puts men under pressure. The Bath study, based on a survey of 6,000 households, showed that on the one hand, the man is doing well when the woman earns and relieves him of his sole responsibility to care for the family. But alas, the salary of the wife is too high!
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As soon as she contributes more than 40 percent to household income, her husband's psychosocial stress increases rapidly. He often feels worthless, sad, desperate. Previous studies have shown similar things, such as that a wife's over-income may make the man impotent or even let him die sooner.
What should one do as a woman only? Refuse the promotion? Hide the payroll? Part-time? Or prefer to choose a profession that already knows you will not earn much there?
Of course not! It really is not the woman that the man suffers so much. The problem is, the outdated role model of the family breadwinner - a picture that many men still think to have to suffice, although the times have long since changed.
Relax, men! That it can also be different, the husbands show in the study from Bath, which was already clear before the wedding, that her sweetheart would be the main earner: They remained in the face of her partner's salary.
warmly
Her Veronika Hackenbroch
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- Do you also wonder how the peaceful protests in Honkong could turn into a violent confrontation between protesters and police? The protest researcher Andy Buschmann explains under what conditions such a thing can happen.
- How are the Chinese twins who were born a year ago with genetically engineered genetic material?
- The new health trend in Silicon Valley is called "dopamine fasting" and means the abstinence of anything that can lead to the release of this neurotransmitter - computer games, artificial light, food, drink, conversation, eye contact.
- On November 19th was International Toilet Day. Everything you always wanted to know about other people's business, in graphics.
- Dead spots and why they exist - a tragedy that started in the eighties.
Quiz*
Who discovered the tuberculosis virus? Emil von Behring, Robert Koch or Alexander Fleming?
What did the Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev invent?
What remove doctors in an appendectomy?
* The answers can be found at the bottom of the newsletter
Picture of the week
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Pretty in Pink, that has rarely been said about greenhouses. LEDs illuminate the crops in this farm in the Dutch Westland day and night. Here, the agriculture of the future is being tested: Thanks to targeted irradiation, plant growth can be precisely controlled. Whether pink, blue, red, LED colors influence how well something sprouts - and how sweet, soft or rich it gets.
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43 minutes of sleep, which, at the request of researchers , gave college students an average of their usual sleep, improved their health: blood pressure dropped, they felt more alert, and nodded less often in class, according to a Pennsylvania State University study. Insufficient sleep is a problem for young people - 36 percent do not get the minimum recommended sleep of seven hours, 14 percent not even six.
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- Medicine: The fountain of youth is a human dream, researchers are forever trying to defeat aging, turn back the clock. They succeeded in doing that - with fish and mice. Now it's our turn.
- Environment: Cigarette butts are a global waste problem - now the cities fight back.
- Drugs: The pharmacologist Christian Steffen explains why so many ineffective drugs are on the market in Germany - and why it is so hard to do something about it.
* Quiz answers: Robert Koch. Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin, Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize for medicine in 1901 for the development of the "blood serum vaccine". / The periodic table of elements. / The cecum.
