男性的收入与其父亲的收入高度相关，而女性的收入则与丈夫的收入高度相关

“We are a land of inequality; the American rich are far richer than the rest of us. Are we a land of opportunity—or at least status mobility? Most of us are never going to rise from our current location, according to mobility statistics. Men's incomes substantially reflect the incomes of their fathers.23 In a different route to the same outcome, women's incomes depend critically on their husbands, and they tend to marry men whose income resembles their father's, so women's incomes also are substantially stable over generations.

我们是不平等的土地；美国富人比我们其他人都富有。我们是机会之地，还是至少地位流动性？根据移动性统计，我们大多数人永远不会从当前的位置上升。男子的收入基本上反映了父亲的收入。 在与相同结果的不同途径中，妇女的收入急剧取决于丈夫，她们倾向于嫁给男人的收入类似于父亲的收入，因此妇女的收入在几代人中也基本上是稳定的。