you surely don’t think the reverse happens do you. There are plenty of men who have developed methods of avoiding paying / for themselves alone. There are plenty of men and always gave been who are layabouts, lazy, boozers and good for nothings. That is nothing new.
the difference between now and my mothers era are substantial - women were routinely committed to psychiatric institutions for a variety of spurious reasons, they did the best they could to manage a family, no contraceptive so had what they had, were expected to be available on demand, jobs weee closed. In the public service as soo. As a woman married she was required to stop work.
ghosting is actually easier and more sensible in some cases. mobile phones and lots of ways of contacting people leave one vulnerable to pests. Sometimes people don’t get the hint. In our day it still required letters and phone calls. Didn’t you ever not take a phone call from someone. I sure did.
abc if equal pay causes a problem then that tells us lots about both sexes.
