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The American family has something new going for it: the femmes女性化 — feminine who finance. After only three decades as members of the mainstream workforce, one in three wives now outearns her husband, up from one in five in 1980. Women with MBAs are doing even better: Nearly 60% have direct deposits bigger than their grooms'. Look for the ranks of the Ms. Breadwinners to rise even more, with 20% more women than men graduating from college and more women swelling the managerial ranks every year. Francine M. Deutsch, a psychology professor who studies gender roles and parenting at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., believes the trend will help erode the mommy tax--the heavy penalties women pay for having children--and help ease female poverty in old age.