The hidden risk in your workplace that makes you more likely to get divorced
Is your work putting you at risk of getting divorced? It sounds surreal, but the place you work really does affect your odds of splitting up.
Specifically, if you work in a job where there’s lots of people from the opposite sex, you’re more likely to get divorced (especially if you’re a man).
Your level of education also plays a part, the researchers found.
The researchers found that men in female-dominated jobs are 15% more likely to get divorced, while women in male-dominated jobs are 10% more likely to get divorced.
lead author Dr Caroline Uggla, from Stockholm University told IFLScience, ‘What we looked at here is the proportion of men and women in your professional sectors, whether you have many colleagues of the opposite sex compared to having many colleagues of the same sex, and how that links to divorce rates.’
‘The most important finding, once controlled for other factors, is that there seems to be an association with the sex ratio of your sector.’
But the effect seems to work differently depending on people’s education levels, Uggla said.
Uggla said, ‘Highly educated men who work in women-dominated sectors are more likely to divorce than lower-educated men working in women-dominated sectors.
‘Lower-educated women working with lots of men were more likely to divorce but there was no such pattern for highly educated women.’
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