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While this might be desirable, it has to be paid for in the form of lower wages for men.
by danieltillett 10y ago
While this might be desirable, it has to be paid for in the form of lower wages for men.
- vertex-four 10y agoIn theory, it's supposed to balance out as women take on jobs that they wouldn't otherwise as a result of being able to share their childcaring duties. In practice, there's obviously all sorts of inefficiencies in the market to deal with - two people working part time might very well not net the same amount as one working full time and the other even less time. There's a number of issues to be solved, but that doesn't mean we should throw our hands up and say it's too hard.
- belorn 10y agoDoesn't this assume that wages are determined by society desire to pay men rather than men desire to get paid? So long dating success has a extremely strong correlation to pay grade for men, how will the incentive to seek higher pay grade going to go down? By changing culture to have men do a bigger role in raising kids, I don't see how we can predict any change in the aspects women has that correlates with success in dating. We would need the gender specific incentives for higher wages to change in order to achieve that.