> I wonder how much of this is because more women are joining the workforce. If men are leaving the workforce by their own free will because their wife is worki

> I wonder how much of this is because more women are joining the workforce. If men are leaving the workforce by their own free will because their wife is working and they are staying home with the kids, both of these facts could be true, but seems like a win in both gender equality terms and allowing men to have the life they want. This seems better then having two working parents. You sound like you didn't look at or have any sense of the statistics around two- vs one-income, single-family households before you posted this comment.