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Most super rich couples have breadwinning husbands and stay-at-home wives, contrasting sharply with everyone else

Written by Jill Yavorsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte

Uber wealth couples are rather traditional when it comes to who works and who doesn’t. EXTREME-PHOTOGRAPHER/E+ via Getty Images

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