In spite of a widely embraced stereotype of the gold digger taking her hapless husband to the cleaners, women tend to fare markedly worse financially than men in the breakup of a marriage. In a 2008 study, the Institute for Social and Economic Research found that 27 percent of women fall into poverty post-divorce—triple the rate of men. Much of that has to do with women having left or never having entered the workforce in order to raise kids. But even those who work before, during, or after their marriage experience a 20 percent drop in income when their marriages end, on average (the poverty
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