The study claimed men also take on the role of “managing long-term investments” and thus setting challenging long-term wealth goals in relationships where there is a “traditional” division of roles.

For single people, however, this differed.

Both men and women perform the short and long-term financial tasks and the study found “no gender differences in savings goals”.

“This absence of any gender-based effect among the people in our study who are not part of a couple shows a clear need to move beyond simply accepting that all men and women think differently about saving and investing when discussing retirement planning and financial risk-taking.”

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