SYDNEY — Most men still find female bosses who earn more than them a threat, an Australian survey has found.

The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph survey found men are more concerned about women being in charge of them at work than they are if their partners earn more than they do.

It shows personal relationships are changing faster than professional ones, relationship expert Lyn Fletcher said.

“It is still a little quaint and old-fashioned view that men should earn more, be the primary breadwinner and be the boss,” Fletcher, from Relationships Australia, said.

In the survey, almost three-quarters of women who earned more than their partners said the men did not mind.

But more than half of the women who had been in charge of men at work said it had bothered their male underlings — at least some of them — some of the time.

Fletcher said couples were learning to live with the contradiction that, in the business world, competitiveness was encouraged and even essential, but such behavior at home would doom the relationship.

“I don’t think it worries women any longer that they may earn more than their partner because women come into a relationship to share, as a partnership,” she said.

“They understand that just because they earn more than their partner, it doesn’t necessarily give them more power or control.”

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