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Re:One-Third of Americans Making $250k Live Paycheck-to-Payc... by Aloha on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:22AM (#31583189)
This is more than likely confusing correlation with causation.

There are a host of regulatory issues that made building anything expensive that arose just as women joined the workforce. The largest source of increase in COL over the last is housing. Rents have nearly doubled in constant dollars in most large cities.

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Re:One-Third of Americans Making $250k Live Paycheck-to-Payc... by BlargMcLarg on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:51AM (#31583688)
FWIW the rise in women working has increased individualism and requirements in men pre-dating, which partially reflects in RE (more individual space, less families).

This doesn't mean women working is the problem, rather we should've thought harder about what measurements should've been taken when introducing women into the workforce. Several countries are now "fixing" this retroactively, though more so to give women a fighting chance rather than actually helping out workers as a whole (e.g. forced paternity leave).

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