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"  This weekend, Fox &amp;amp;amp; Friends Sunday posed an interesting question to a panel of experts that included Miss New York USA 2013. &amp;quot;Is there a problem with men earning less than women in the household, and do you think that it could throw off\u2014that it actually could cause big marital problems?&amp;quot; What!? That was our reaction, but Kmele Foster, co-host of Fox&amp;#039;s The Independents responded thusly: &amp;quot;It certainly could cause problems. I mean anytime you&amp;#039;re running against convention, I suspect there might be problems\u2014tension with friends, family, and folks that are very judgmental. But if your relationship is particularly strong, and you understand that it&amp;#039;s about supporting one another, then I don&amp;#039;t think it should be a fundamental problem you can&amp;#039;t overcome.&amp;quot;  And it&amp;#039;s true: Historically, men have out-earned women and traditionally been the &amp;quot;breadwinners&amp;quot; for the family. But if we&amp;#039;re looking at history, there was also a time when women couldn&amp;#039;t own property, vote, or wear pants to the office. So sure, some might call it defying convention, others might call it inevitable progress. Or, you know, gender equality. Related: I Resent My Wife&amp;#039;s Earning Potential But Fox &amp;amp;amp; Friends host Clayton Morris wasn&amp;#039;t satisfied with Foster&amp;#039;s response about cultural conventions\u2014he wanted to dig deeper and talk science: &amp;quot;I get the cultural argument, guys. I mean, I can see how\u2014we can all weave our way through cultural issues. But isn&amp;#039;t there some sort of biological, innate need for men to be the caveman? Go out and bring home the dinner and actually go out\u2014Is it emasculating if we don&amp;#039;t do it?&amp;quot;      Miss New York, Joanne Nosuchinsky, had the best answer to Morris&amp;#039;s question, &amp;quot;Is there a biological need for the man to take care of the woman?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It doesn&amp;#039;t have to be financially, there are other ways to take care of your family,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;You can be the head of the household without being the one who makes the most money. Unfortunately money is tied to pride often, so you have to find a man who doesn&amp;#039;t have those insecurities.&amp;quot; Nosuchinsky is the first to point out that at the heart of this whole issue is the man&amp;#039;s problem: insecurity. While Fox News somehow finds a way to blame women for making more money\u2014with headlines like &amp;quot;Recipe for Disaster? A woman&amp;#039;s paycheck can impact her marriage&amp;quot; appearing on the screen\u2014Miss New York says what we&amp;#039;re all thinking: Get over it. As Media Matters points out, this isn&amp;#039;t the first time Fox News has covered the &amp;quot;concerning&amp;quot; subject of the rise in female breadwinners. Last May Fox host Lou Dobbs called a Pew study that found a record number of female breadwinners suggestive of &amp;quot;society dissolv[ing] around us,&amp;quot; which contributor Juan Williams agreed with, saying it&amp;#039;s indicative of &amp;quot;something going terribly wrong in American society.&amp;quot; Well, these guys proved that there&amp;#039;s definitely something going terribly wrong in our society, and it has nothing to do with lady breadwinners. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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