Stating the Obvious

I don't need articles like this one telling me what I have long known about our economy.

The system is rigged so that women have to avail to the marriage racket. Women are underpaid on purpose in order to force them into economic dependence on men and men get sexual access and free domestic labor in return. This is why women make up by far the biggest group of poor people. Marriage is the major means of upward mobility for women, and our society doesn't question it at all.

I don't need to read a book trying to explain the obvious. Second-wave feminists heavily criticized the "family wage" system pushed by unions and churches like the Catholic church because women not only were kept out of fields dominated by men, but the work that they did do was completely denigrated in pay.

This is why "equal pay for equal work" doesn't truly address the issue because men's pay has always been inflated thanks to the "family wage" concept that still influences our economy despite the fact fewer and fewer jobs pay "family wages." Most "male jobs" should pay little more than minimum wage.