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Who wears the pants in a relationship matters – especially if you're a woman

  • Written by Laina Bay-Cheng, Associate Professor of Social Work, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageIn most relationships, one partner wields more power than the other.'Hands' via www.shutterstock.com

When it comes to power in romantic relationships, men are often cast as dominant and women as deferential. But working against this are caricatures of domineering women with their “hen-pecked husbands” and “whipped...

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