[mkeedlinger]

This is assuming, however, that the work force has an equal number of women and men. Some women choose to and want to be stay-at-home moms. Should we try to persuade them otherwise?

[mantas]

Isn't that's what the modern culture is trying to do for the past few decades?

[saas_co_de]

The US DOL says that 47% of the labor force is female and there is a significant gap in educational attainment between women and men in younger cohorts so the available pool of college educated women under 30-35 probably exceeds men.

https://blog.dol.gov/2017/03/01/12-stats-about-working-women https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...