Unemployment Can Spell Divorce for Men, But Not Women https://www.livescience.com/14705-husbands-employment-threat...
One might say that women who get high status men (high salary) choose to keep them and those who get low status choose to find new new opportunities.
What I mean is that possibly men and women react very differently to a situation of unemployment. As the article says,
> The findings reveal that despite more women entering the workplace, the pressure on husbands to be breadwinners largely remains.
Could it be that unemployed men become really difficult people to deal with, in most circumstances?
You confuse cause and effect. Difficult people end up being unemployed.
A lot of peole of both genders (meaning dudes too) see male role as breadwinner supposed to work a lot of hours, but not really supposed to do logistic around children or even spend time enough with spouse to keep relationships alive - it is not even possible with over 60 hours a week schedule. You can see that attitude in tech community often. With such arrangement, her loss of job makes her a bit more depressive, but relationship kinda can continue almost the same. His loss of job is personal catastrophe for him, loss of identity, familly role and lot more stress overall.
It is not just money, it is identity and self respect going away for them. Such change is hard on marriage even absent financial stress - which makes everything double hard.