Did Women's Liberation Movement Increase Income Gap in the U.S.?

thelordpsy · 2011-07-27T16:40:00+00:00

It's fun to read through the comments on that post to see how many people read the title and then posted a comment about a wage gap between genders which the article is absolutely not about

thingamagizmo · 2011-07-27T14:30:39+00:00

TLDR: "For every household that could be dual-income that either breaks up or never gets together, you replace it with two single-income households at a lower income level." and "When you adjust to show individual incomes, the income gap is only $65k, not $160k."

More thorough example from the author in the comments section:

Two typical families in 1950: Both have father working, mother staying at home and 2 kids. The household makes $60k per year (inflation adjusted).

Now fast forward to today. We still have the same eight people. But now one family is still married, the mom works and both parents make $60k per year. The other family is split up and the dad makes $60k per year and the mom makes $60k per year.

Individual income disparity has not changed at all. Each worker makes $60,000. It’s not like some “rich guy” is suddenly making so much more money than the other people.

But how do the CBO numbers see this?

1 household of $120k

2 households of $60k

ACK!!!! Income disparity is getting worse!!!!!

Um, no it didn’t. Social changes skewed the statistics.

It's an interesting point, and I'm not sure if this has been discussed before here. Is this something you were already aware of?

2011-07-27T16:36:21+00:00

I prefered this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372172/David-Willetts-Feminism-widened-poverty-gap-set-social-mobility-decades.html But yeah agree with what this article says. Feminism is 'equality' for rich people.

Title	Did Women's Liberation Movement Increase Income Gap in the U.S.?
Author	thingamagizmo
Upvotes	4
Comments	4
Date	July 27, 2011 2:27 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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