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The economic news for young women recently has been bright. Several studies have suggested that women under 30 who live in citie

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问题     The economic news for young women recently has been bright. Several studies have suggested that women under 30 who live in cities and work in industries that require a college education are earning more than their male peers, on average. Finally, some closure of the gender wage gap! But now comes that irritating other aspect: another new study has found that women who make more money than their men are more likely to be cheated on.
    The study, which was presented by Christin Munsch, a sociology Ph. D. candidate at Cornell University, at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, examined 18 to 28 year olds who were living together or married more than a year. It found that men who were completely dependent on their wives’ incomes were five times likelier to cheat than those who contributed the same amount to the household finances.
    Munsch believes this is not actually about money, but about men’s feelings of sexual identity. "Any identity that’s important to you, if you feel it’s threatened, you’re going to engage in behavior that will reinstate your place in that group," she says. "Being a man is strongly identified with being a breadwinner. " Men might engage in "hyper-masculine activities"—displaying their sexual competence—as a form of compensatory behavior.
    At the other end of the spectrum, men who make a lot more money than their wives were also more inclined to cheat, found Munsch. She suggests, however, it’s for different reasons. While non-earning men cheat because they are unhappy, higher earning men cheat because... they can.
    The men least likely to cheat, for those keeping count at home, had partners who made 75% of what they made. Conveniently, that’s more or less the same proportion of a man’s salary the average U. S. woman earned in 2008. This is what’s called a silver lining.
    As for women, income disparity works in the opposite way: those who make less than their men or who aren’t breadwinners at all were much less likely to cheat than those who made more. Either they express their unhappiness in less relationship-jeopardizing ways, or Munsch believes, their minimal wage didn’t threaten their gender identity as much.
    The study, which drew on data from the 2002 to 2007 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, found that only 3.8% of male partners and 1.4% of female partners cheated in any given year during that period, so no matter what, the problem may be less prevalent than a lot of married folks fear. It also did not factor in age, education level, income, religious attendance, and relationship satisfaction, all of which could be as causal as income.
    So, ladies, whatever you do, don’t use this as an excuse not to ask for that raise.
According to the study, men who are least likely to cheat on women were those
选项 A、who totally relied on their wives’ incomes.
B、whose wives earned 75% of what they did.
C、who earned a lot more than their wives did.
D、whose incomes were five times more than their wives.
答案B
解析 事实细节题。根据题干关键词least likely to cheat定位至第五段，根据该段首句：最不容易不忠的男性，他们把收入交给家里，他们配偶的收入通常是他们的75％。由此可知[B]正确。根据第二段最后一句：完全依赖妻子收入养家的男性对妻子不忠的可能性比那些和妻子挣得一样多的男性要高出5倍，可知[A]错误；根据第四段第一句：那些收入远远高过妻子的男性也更有可能出现不忠行为，可知[C]、[D]错误。
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