Feminism didn't kill the male breadwinner model, the economy did

Article here. Actually it was the effects of feminism that saw the labor market double and thus cause wages to fall in purchasing power value by at least half combined with changes in technology, etc., that have less-skilled people of both sexes generally not earning much. But the assertion that feminism had nothing to do with it is false. Excerpt:

'The discourse around young men's place in the world is frustrating. On the one hand, the idea that men may genuinely be having a harder time of it is often summarily dismissed. On the other, for many young men, the scapegoat for difficulties is either women or feminism. Both are wrong.

Any discussion must start by acknowledging that less-educated young men have been uniquely downwardly mobile over the past generation. But the explanation for this is primarily economic, not cultural.

The defining labour market shift in recent decades has been the steep decline in manufacturing jobs and the strong growth of those in knowledge-intensive services and healthcare. The former disproportionately hurt less-educated men, and the compensating gains went to everyone but them: the growth of knowledge work boosted the well-educated (men and women alike), while healthcare jobs have primarily gone to women (with and without degrees).'

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