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Well, the author does mention "Or maybe you're just left with less time to go to work." in the 4th paragraph.

The thing of interest to me, though, was the gender-based age difference in the inversion point of the money/sex correlation. I would have expected the opposite, frankly, given society's "breadwinner" v. "trophy wife" archetypes.

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Since the analysis is based on comfort with financial position, not absolute financial position, I would suspect this reflects the fact that women feel the need for financial security before being able to feel relaxed at a younger age than men. In other words, more or less keeping with societal norms.

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