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Sadly the high achieving women in this field have no husband or kids or they have a lot of help . Or, marry a SAH dad - not a lawyer, not an engineer- maybe a teacher?[/quote]

Americans love a good Cinderella story… except when it comes to their own marriages. It turns out that if Cinderella had been born in modern-day America, she would be much more likely to marry the butler than she would the prince. A recent NBER paper finds that Americans increasingly practice “positive assortative mating” when picking their spouse. That is to say, “like marries like:” people marry those with similar incomes and educational backgrounds.

The implications of assortative mating for income inequality are greater now than they were in 1960. This is largely because of the rise of women in the workforce. Since women in 1960 were less likely to be working, a wife’s education level contributed less to gaps in household income levels. Nowadays, a college-educated couple has two high salaries, making the gap between their household’s income and a less-educated couple’s income widen substantially.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2014/02/10/opposites-dont-attract-assortative-mating-and-social-mobility/

In other words, as women have made educational and social gains they prefer not to marry those with lower educational or social status.  This makes childcare difficult.[/quote]

couple this trend with the other trend of increasing immigration over historical levels.  we have brought in 40 to 50 million low skilled workers to compete with existing low skilled workers.  this keeps wages low for the low skilled couple.

we had to find home care for elderly relative in southern town in NC.  there were an abundance of nurses willing to work for 10$ an hour to feed/bathe/help toilet/clean house for a person.   Hundreds and all women available for this.  There was absolutely NO shortage of workers.

low skilled workers have been devastated by the immigration policy of this country[/quote]

They most certainly have.  Americans should be putting the needs of other Americans first, but instead we're all addicted to cheap labour.  Its pretty basic economic knowledge that when you have a lot of something (labour), it is cheap, but when there is a scarcity, it goes up in price.[/quote]

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