Aside from the first few years of work, men still outearn women at every educational level.

A man who made more than his wife when they were married may wind up jobless for a year or two, and outearn her later.

Five, six years back, he decided his prime goal was to outearn his dad.

Most are small businesses, with fewer than 100 employees who, on average, outearn their counterparts everywhere else in the world.

Distilling those numbers is simple compared to assessing the impact on relationships when women outearn men, as researchers now seek to do.

John Kelly, whose adopted son will outearn his yearly salary by about $37,000 in one paycheck, made sure to impart that critical message last month.

He might not have anything more to prove than his ability to outearn De La Hoya in a second fight.

When they objected, I scoffed at them, declaring that within a year I would outearn my mother's medical practice.

In a world where many women now outearn their husbands, it's rare to find men who can be such blissful and unself-conscious marital moochers.

Women in their 20s outearn their male counterparts in most major metropolitan areas, largely because of higher rates of college completion.

Or that the Crazy Horse girls outearn the thoroughbreds from that very different stable at Lincoln Center.

It was as difficult for him to earn less than his son, as it was for the son to outearn his father.

But Corporate Express has yet to prove that it can outearn Boise Cascade, which made $28 million last year selling $962 million of office products.

Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.

With the Tigers, his employees will include millionaire players who outearn him, and Anderson, a famous manager who has won the World Series with teams in two leagues.

In homes where women outearn their spouses, Ms. Hochschild, the sociologist, said women still do most of the housework perhaps to compensate their partners for loss of ego or male pride.

Given that nearly one in four wives in two-paycheck couples now outearn their husbands, it may be foolhardy to assume that it is always the woman's income that the family can forgo.

"It seems that, like lemmings, we are all racing faster and faster into the sea, each of us trying to outrun and outspend and outearn the other in a mad sprint toward the mirage of the next blockbuster," Mr. Katzenberg wrote.

I took a little trip down memory lane while reading about college men who hang out, socialize, play video games and "take the path of least resistance" in their classes and then go on to outearn and professionally outperform the girls who juggle jobs, internships, campus activities and honors-level course work.