the need to keep a high paying job (men being bread winners and all Right, the study is useless if it doesn't say what they did instead - did they cross train

the need to keep a high paying job (men being bread winners and all Right, the study is useless if it doesn't say what they did instead - did they cross train and become successful lawyers, for example? If you click through a couple of links to the Fortune article, it seems to say that most of them simply stopped working altogether. That's an option most people don't have. Presumably they had partners to support them, as you say.