Some social analysts (including Aulette) assert that no-fault laws disadvantage women. All of the following are among the reasons they give for this claim EXCEPT:

a. Married couples tend to make decisions that reduce the earning capacity of women leaving them more economically vulnerable in a divorce.
b. Women make less money than men in the labor market.
c. Equal division of marital property generally excludes pensions and education as assets and means that the house is no longer awarded to women.
d. Although women's contributions to their husbands' earning capacity is a legally-recognized asset, it is most often undervalued.


d

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