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I generally agree and would say the root cause is that we are individually poorer and this is forcing both members of a partnership into the workforce to make u
by Practicality 10y ago
I generally agree and would say the root cause is that we are individually poorer and this is forcing both members of a partnership into the workforce to make up the difference.
If women worked and men all stayed home, did chores and social networking we would not be lonely again.
I don't think it has much to do with gender so much as "we have less free time." It just shows up as women working, but I don't think women working is the cause, merely a symptom.
- fallingfrog 10y agoAh, but what if the fact that we are individually poorer mostly derives from supply and demand - in other words, if labor is more abundant, then the price paid by an employer for labor goes down? In that case it is plausible that the entry of women into the workplace could be part of what's causing the drop in wages as well. And in that case it's a self reinforcing feedback loop, since if everyone else has two people working then you have to do that too, just to maintain stable wages.