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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.
The study found that cheating
选项 A、due to income disparity may not as serious as people thought.
B、could be as causal as their income in a relationship.
C、should not be an excuse for women to ask for raise.
D、may threaten women’s gender identity.
答案A
解析 推理判断题。根据题干关键词The study found that可以定位至第七段。根据该段首句的后半部分：这个问题可能并不像许多已婚人士所担心的那样普遍，可知[A]正确。[B]是对第七段最后一句的误解；而文章最后一句指出女士们不应该以此为借口，而不要求加薪，但是这是作者的态度，而不是研究发现的结果，故排除[C]；第六段最后一句指出女性虽然工资微薄，但却不会严重到威胁自己的性别认同，而不是cheating，因此排除[D]。
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