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by alkonaut 2877 days ago
Unsure. But equality is one factor. At least where I live women outnumber men at universities - meaning that if one partner in the relation has an "important career", it's very soon going to be more often the mother.

Another factor is rents and house prices. If everyone you are competing with for that house can pay the mortgage on two incomes, you aren't going to afford it on one. So that's economic necessity I guess.
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rhapsodic 2877 days ago
> At least where I live women outnumber men at universities - meaning that if one partner in the relation has an "important career", it's very soon going to be more often the mother.

You can't logically conclude that based on that one data point.

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panda888888 2877 days ago
College enrollment at all schools across the US (both 2 year and 4 year) is ~56% women, if I did the math right. Source: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_303.70.a...
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user5994461 2877 days ago
Women go less into STEM and higher income domains, compared to men. They have more degrees in aggregate but it's a higher proportion of "worthless" degrees. It is not meaningful to predict income.
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alkonaut 2877 days ago
I’m an anecdata scientist...

Jokes aside, it was a data point to illustrate a change that I know takes place also in other countries; that women account for an ever larger fraction of people with higher education. The number of families where the mother makes more money than the man is slowly increasing.

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rhapsodic 2877 days ago
>Jokes aside, it was a data point to illustrate a change that I know takes place also in other countries; that women account for an ever larger fraction of people with higher education. The number of families where the mother makes more money than the man is slowly increasing.

I think if you dig into the data for US universities, you'll find that women are underrepresented in high-paying STEM majors and over-represented in low-paying majors like Dance or Early Childhood Development or Pre-1860 Russian Literature. Until that changes, I don't think your prediction is likely to come to pass.

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alkonaut 2877 days ago
Oh I have no hopes for the US
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rhapsodic 2877 days ago
> Oh I have no hopes for the US

That sounds like a value judgement. What difference does it make?

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