The Continued Poisonous Effect of the "Family Wage" Concept

This 

article about young women being "concerned" about outearning their partners is from a year ago, but it shows one just how poisonous the "family wage" concept remains in our society. Since the mid-1970s, with the massive influx of women into the labor force, especially married mothers, the "family wage" has been increasingly rare, as companies discovered they could hire two workers for the price of one. The fact is men are not naturally providers and women dependents. That mentality forms the basis of every single pernicious thing that affects women, chiefly poverty. Women should not have to rely on men at all in order to survive, but the "family wage" idea had the effect of forcing women into the marriage racket. Male-dominated jobs have been overpaid because of the "family wage" subsidy, not because the jobs are more skilled, harder, require more education, and so on. It is only because men do it. They are still considered by employers to need the extra money more than women do because in their eyes, women are supported by husbands. We know this because when women dominate a field, the pay immediately goes down. Entire occupations dominated by women are underpaid because of the poisonous "family wage" idea.

Amazing any millennials have 1950s-style attitudes about earnings. Jobs should not be paid because of the sex or family status of an individual.