WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – A majority of women have emerged as primary breadwinners despite a large lack of confidence in their own financial decisions, according to Prudential Financial’s 7th biennial study of the “Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women.”

The 2012 survey of 1,410 American women and 604 men – between the ages of 25 and 68 – finds that 53 percent of women make more money than their male counterparts, with an increasing number of women assuming this role as a result of partners losing jobs during the financial crisis, divorce and marrying later in life….article