r/MensRights • u/Banana-phone15 • 15h ago
General Some women think there is a wealth gap between genders, that they need to catch up to.
This is the first time I am hearing this. But turns out some women think, there is a generational wealth gap between genders. & they need to catch up to man 𤣠I thought that was comical in 2026. I can understand systemic wealth gap in racism. But women and man donât have systemic wealth gap. Women inherit wealth from their male and female parents, just like men do. Women also have shared wealth when they marry men. And they get a share when they divorce. (If they signed Prenup, then they agreed to less). They have every opportunity to earn personal wealth, maybe even more than men in 2026. I donât think there is a gap to catch up to. Maybe I am wrong, and ignorant to some facts. If I am maybe you guys could shed some light into it. What do you guys think?
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u/Pretend-Storm4566 15h ago
A little old, from 2011.
From http://familywealthadvisorscouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/FWAC_WomenOfWealth_12pp.pdfÂ
âBy 2030, women will control two-thirds of the nationâs wealth â a result of strong organic growth rates buoyed by trillions in generational and spousal transfers.â
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u/Banana-phone15 15h ago
âToday, women control 51.3%, or $14 trillion, in personal wealth, and that figure is expected to grow to $22 trillion within the next decade.â Based on that quote from the link. Women not only reached financial equality in 2011, but surpassed men by 1.3%. If that is true, it is men, who needs to catch up to women in 2026. Assuming that gap kept growing in womenâs favor, as it was projected in the article. TY for sharing that link.
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u/picardathon 12h ago
Being concerned about a gender wealth gap is like being concerned about the generational, racial, etc wealth gaps: equality is a pointless concept when the things they are based on are intrinsically not equal. How about pushing for equality of skin colour? That would make as much sense as equality of gender wealth.
Society is structured as a hierarchy, for better or worse. A belief in equality means converting that hierarchy into a flat structure where everyone and everything is equal, which doesn't make sense when everyone and everything is not equal. There is no equality in sport because of genetic differences, for example, and there never can be.
Equality only makes sense as a high level concept for outcome, such as happiness or human rights, but not when applied to selective physical factors that are intrinsically diverse.
Feminism doesn't want equality, just more handed to women without any compensating return for society. It doesn't believe in balance such as equal pay for equal work, but women being given money for nothing simply because they are women and entitled. At best it is about numerical equality as a good feeling, rather than any intrinsic worth in equal numbers: even equal representation is fallacious, when it requires representing the source rather than representing oneself as the source, as if an individual is intrinsically representative of the whole.
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u/HuckleberryStatus544 15h ago
I mean, it's a weird framing from the jump. Generational wealth usually means passing assets down through families, not some gender-based funnel. The idea that money only flows to sons is a relic from like, the 1800s. Most modern wills split things evenly anyway.
The bigger disconnect is people confusing an earnings gap (debatable on its own once you control for hours and job type) with a wealth gap. One is a paycheck, the other is your total net worth including assets and debt. Women control a massive chunk of consumer spending and inherit just as often, so trying to paint them as a monolith that's been locked out of capital for centuries feels like a lazy import from other conversations.
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u/Powerful-Act3516 14h ago
One interesting angle is that women on average live longer than men. Most people live in heterosexual couple relationships (ie, some or complete pooling of wealth with another person, and the man dies first). Older people (ie, closer to typical death ages) have not only the highest net wealth among all age cohorts but they also have net positive wealth, and they tend to spend less (even factoring in increased healthcare spending)
So the typical woman at the end of her life will have substantial wealth (relative to every other age + gender combination cohort) by the time she is about to die (presumably when the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth occurs).
Evidence (although anecdotal) suggests that parents overwhelmingly divide intergenerational assets equally without regard to gender (ie, dying men and women are not likely to give a much larger inheritance to their sons rather than daughters).
So, exactly where is this "gender wealth gap" getting introduced? The common scenario is where a woman inherits about what a man does (obviously zero for many people) and then at the very end of her life controls the assets for two people (her and her late husband) and then typically passes down the remaining wealth equally without regard to gender. Obviously there are many variations, but this is the plurality case.
What am I missing? Because so far it smells like "gender pay gap 80 cents on the dollar" feminist fantasy "logic"
Source (not authoritative): https://www.cnbc.com/select/average-net-worth-of-americans-ages-75-and-up/
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/happy-retirement/average-spending-by-age-for-those-55-and-up
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u/Banana-phone15 13h ago
Damn man you are good at making point. Even backed up your claims with sources. I havenât even thought about wealth gap in elderly population. TY for shading light on that
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u/Powerful-Act3516 13h ago
I figure most intergenerational wealth gets passed on by old people, so we should see what's happening there. I'm open to discussion. Thanks for starting the conversation!
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u/EvalCrux 12h ago
Title is wrong. Youâre only talking about an imaginary and not controversial inheritance gap rather than earnings gap.
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u/_WutzInAName_ 15h ago edited 15h ago
There is a wealth gap between genders, but it favors women.
Dishonest feminists claim there is a pay gap, while conveniently ignoring the fact that this is due almost entirely to individual choices; men work longer hours and take on more of the dangerous, undesirable jobs that women refuse to do. Women drop out of the workforce more often to care for children, because they have that choice.
In addition, they ignore alimony and child support, which is almost always paid by men to women.
They also ignore the fact that women control over 75% of consumer discretionary spending. Men pay more in taxes to fund social programs that disproportionately benefit women, while programs to help men get shut down because thatâs âmisogynyâ according to man-hating feminists.
Men sacrifice more of their living years to make more money that gets spent on and by women, but greedy, lying feminists keep using lies about âpatriarchyâ to demand that women get even more.