One of the reasons that the real earnings of working-class men in the United States have been stagnant for forty years is the mass exodus of women from the home and the neighborhood and into the labor force. That has also had the strange effect of driving up housing costs, and of segregating white-collar professionals from everybody else, as now a doctor will marry a lawyer or a bank executive will marry a professor. Then the double income goes to support one family with one or two children, rather than each separate income supporting a family with four or five children.
Anthony Esolen, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, pg.143
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