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1. Women seek men with high income, 2. Having a housewife leaves the man with more free time to work. See, no need to make a study.
by anqh4 9y ago
1. Women seek men with high income,
2. Having a housewife leaves the man with more free time to work.
See, no need to make a study.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoThose are the first and third of the the three hypotheses that they consider. They attempt to figure out how large the impact of each hypothesis is.
- civilian 9y ago> 2. Having a housewife leaves the man with more free time to work. That's hypothesis 2 of the three that they looked at, that marriage "makes a man a more productive worker". There is a need for a study. What if employers are simply assuming that married men are better workers (hypothesis 3), but married men aren't actually better workers? Than as an unmarried man, I'm getting discriminated against, and marital status is a protected class. This is good shit to look at.
- lemonsqueeze 9y agoNo, marriage does not make a man more productive. A productive man is more likely to get married (He's a good catch) It's a selection bias on the part of the woman (or man, not that there's anything wrong with that)
- anqh4 9y agoI forgot 3, then: 3. Employers assume married men, especially if they have children, are hard workers and responsible