A woman’s success increases the likelihood of divorce – Kommersant

The likelihood of divorce in a family where a woman is successful is higher than the statistical average. The managing partner of the BIEL law firm, public commissioner for the protection of women entrepreneurs and their families, Philip Ryabchenko, spoke about this at a closed meeting women’s club “Kommersant” “Family values ​​and business: where to find points of intersection, growth and development.”

“The reason (for divorce.— “Kommersant”), which I often come across, there is such a statistic that a successful woman in the family means a high probability of divorce. Especially if a woman is more successful than a man,” said Mr. Ryabchenko.

According to him, often men simply cannot cope with the situation when their wives begin to overtake them in moving up the career ladder. In addition, there are often situations when men “begin to like the role of a woman,” the expert continued. “They begin to relax, they develop complexes, they take it out on women, begin to terrorize them and arrange strange showdowns in the evenings,” said Philip Ryabchenko.

In this case, he considers divorce to be a radical solution, and a marriage contract to be an intermediate solution. “A man usually doesn’t delve into this story (his wife’s business.— “Kommersant”), so if you give him something tangible that he understands, say that problems are possible, then the man can agree to a barracks agreement. And then it depends on the woman, she must make a decision, she stays with this capricious child, or she moves on and separates from him, securing her assets,” added Mr. Ryabchenko.

He also said that the strongest marriages are made by business partners because they “treat business like a child.” “Do a man and a woman compete when they have a child together? Maybe for attention, but they are doing well. If a situation of divorce is brewing, then children are often a stop. And in business too,” the expert concluded.

Experts believe that gender equality in the world will come before income, more about this in the Kommersant article “Equal and Poor”.