Gender: The Oscar Curse (or, Why It Stinks to Be a Successful Woman)

So much for having it all.

Such is the moral of a new working paper on the so-called Oscar Curse, the tabloidal trope that women who win Academy Awards are more likely to subsequently go through a divorce (see: Sandra Bullock and Reese Witherspoon, among others).

Here's a chart from the paper showing the survival rates or a marriage — that is, its likelihood of still existing — after a given amount of time has elapsed since an Oscar win or nomination:

For more, see The Oscar Curse (or, Why It Stinks to Be a Successful Woman) by Catherine Rampell, February 1, 2011 at NYTimes.com.