I have heard the argument that it is modernity/technology that has made the incomes of young women equal or exceed the incomes of young men. But another theory is that young women always had the potential to earn more than the median young man, through prostitution or soft-sex work -- dancing, prostitution, hostessing, courtesans. Soft-sex work or serial monogamous prostitution. However, societies that survived greatly limited women's ability to enter these trades or to profit from those trades. So what is new right now, is not technology, but a change in societal norms. And even these norms are not "new", they are frequently seen during the decline stages of empires...
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I have heard the argument that it is modernity/technology that has made the incomes of young women equal or exceed the incomes of young men. But another theory is that young women always had the potential to earn more than the median young man, through prostitution or soft-sex work -- dancing, prostitution, hostessing, courtesans. Soft-sex work or serial monogamous prostitution. However, societies that survived greatly limited women's ability to enter these trades or to profit from those trades. So what is new right now, is not technology, but a change in societal norms. And even these norms are not "new", they are frequently seen during the decline stages of empires...
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