still, the man deserves to be in the vast majority of couples more than his partner. But current statistics show that The gap is closing – albeit slowly. In the case of certain pairs, it is faster.

In Germany, slightly more women than earning a few years ago in the common household for at least as much as your Partner. At exactly a quarter of the couples the wife’s income in 2017, was at the level of the man or about it. The display data of the Federal Statistical office, the “Welt am Sonntag” reported.

the income of the wife exceeded in approximately 14 percent of the cases, those of the man – in around eleven percent of similar income. The information provided by the statisticians come from the so-called micro-census and refer to mixed-sex couples.