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Originally Posted by tracilicious
(Prudence, I hope you don't mind if I use you as an example.)
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Not at all.
I'm particularly sensitive to the issue because I do hope we can be a one income (or one-and-a-half income) family. I'm sure as hell not back in school for my health. If I can manage it, I'd like my kids to have the same benefit I had of a parent at home with them during the day. In that sense I'm quite traditional.
However, any discussion on the perils of a dual-income household tends, as this piece does, to focus on the female career as the superfluous one. And it's that attitude that keeps my paycheck smaller than men who are hired into similar positions, but with less experience or education. It's that attitude that helps keep teacher and librarian salaries low. (Nurses, thanks to a little help from aging baby boomers, are in short enough supply now that their salaries are on the rise.) Apparently I'm just working for pin money the mortgage will mysteriously pay itself.