The Dating Wealth Gap Is Getting Wider [Video]

“I don’t expect someone to earn as much as I do” is something I’m hearing more and more lately from my female clients. They are women from a wide range of racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds who are attorneys, physicians, economists, software engineers, and business owners. They understand that the dating pool they have access to may consist of more men who earn less than them.

These clients usually have no issue being the breadwinner in a relationship. But having a relationship in which they are the financial providers flies in the face of a long history of gendered expectations when it comes to dating and finances.

Dating in America right now includes navigating these realities: a challenging economy on the one hand and outdated gender norms, particularly when it comes to who makes more money in relationships, on the other. We are at a crossroads where women can out-earn their potential male partners, but men …