But he implies that the answer to family break-up and child neglect is to shore up male wages and restore the "traditional" family.

The loss of earnings allowance approximated to the average male industrial wage.

Women have a small pay disadvantage, earning 97% of male wages in most occupations.

In medieval times, this was one of the few livelihoods available to a woman in order to live independently of a male wage.

This situation arises because she has no other adult who shares responsibilities and no access to a male wage.

He had not only to acquire knowledge of the artificial-flower trade but to compete, while paying full male wages, against most manufacturers, who employed low-waged girls.

THE great defense against stagnating male wages in America over the last few decades has been the two-worker family.

Work opportunities were fewer for women than men, and women were paid less than the male wage for the same work.

Prescription charges for medicines were abolished immediately, while pensions were raised to a record 21% of average male industrial wages.

The value of family allowances was raised from 4.1% to 6.2% of nominal male wages (1958).