As the wife in a partnership where I manage the money and scrutinize every purchase and where I was the one to urge buying a home and investing more in retirement. I could attribute this to being an arts professional and city-dwelling Gen-Xer and thus less gender-typical than older, suburban-dwelling people but it also doesn’t sound like my baby-boomer father and stepmother: He’s frugal enough but still buys big-ticket items like trips and machinery while my stepmother’s entertainment consists of checking out library books. That said, I “spend” more money because I work shorter hours and thus take on both money management and most of the family shopping.

I don’t understand this brief post — it’s filled with essentially no data or studies to support what amounts to the writer’s unoriginal and not very deeply-thought-out opinion.