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Do You Not Share, With Your Partner, Information About the Money You Spend?

This one is about my husband and me.  It's about financial fidelity .  And I'm afraid we don't have it. We've managed fidelity on everything else but money has always been a problem, maybe because we met and married after we'd both established careers, and held on to our separate checking accounts, according to newswise.com.   But a new study says that, though r omantic relationships are built on trust — when it comes to money, even faithful part ners are not always honest about their spending and saving habits. "New research from the University of Notre Dame introduces the concept of financial infidelity — engaging in any financial behavior likely to be frowned upon by a romantic partner and intentionally failing to disclose that behavior," the web site reports. The study is the first to introduce, define and measure financial infidelity reliably and succinctly and to examine its antecedents and consequences.   I'm a spender.  He's a sav

Women Don't Really Want Lower-Paying Jobs. So Why Do We Pick the Majors That Place Us There?

Why do women select colleges  that have lower earning potential ?  According to a new survey, we do. Newswise.com reports that e ven when both male and female college students say they want to pursue a major with the best earnings prospects, "the majors men choose are higher paying than the majors women choose." In a new study, sociologist  Natasha Quadlin  of The Ohio State University found that “the logics of major choice” may lead women to select different majors from men, despite having similar preferences.  “Even when women place great emphasis on earnings, other preferences may ultimately win out for them,” said Quadlin, assistant professor of  sociology at Ohio State .  One possible competing preference: finding a field that’s a good fit.  So is that why we're teachers and nurses?  But wait.  We're also doctors and lawyers and fire chiefs. Quadlin surveyed 2,720 students from three higher education institutions that had programs intended to attrac