Study showing men awarded more than women in divorce cases

[Pelagi]

I’m interested in thoughts on this article that I came across:

cardozolawreview.com/settling-in-the-shadow-of-sex-divorce-marital-asset-division/

This study seems to show, basically, that in various divorce scenarios - different main carer, different person wanting the divorce, on average the “judges” awarded the men more than the women even when all other circumstances were the same. So a male main carer with female main earner gets more than female main carer with male main earner, for instance. Whereas male main earner with female main carer gets more than female main earner with male main carer.

Why would that be? I’m really wondering what it is about society that leads to that.

I'd be very skeptical of this for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it's the US, not the UK and, secondly, it's not analysed any actual divorce settlements, it's just asked randos what they would do if they were a judge (which they aren't and obviously have none of the training or understanding that a judge has). They also don't appear to have published the full data anywhere which makes it difficult to see what was actually determined.

Thoughts?

Who were the 3,022 subjects?
Are they based in law and divorce?

Why did the article not use existing published information from actual divorces?

Why use a hypothetical situation?

Yes I saw that it was US based. Do you think there is a big difference then on how people think in US vs UK? (I’m in UK)

And yes it looks like members of the public being asked, not judges. But I still find it fascinating (and a bit alarming) that this apparent bias exists even in “ordinary” people.

I imagine they didn’t use real cases because they couldn’t make the direct like-for-like comparison? So everything the same except the sexes of the spouses swapped.