A recent study suggests that men with partners who earn better than them risk dying from heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Sociologists at Rutgers University, New Jersey, found that men suffered psychologically when their better halves took over their role as the main provider of the house. Over 2000 couples were studied in a span of 30 years. Changes in their earnings and status were monitored and much higher rates of stress-related illness and heart problems and diabetes were found in men whose wives earned better than them

