One of the previously male-dominated field that the article mentions is computer programming.  There is no other field in the article that has undergone such a fundamental shift from when women used to dominate the field.  There were virtually no barriers to entry to the field back then either in the form of requiring a degree or societal norms ingrained from childhood.<p>Other fields mentioned either require longer hours or were simply more demanding.  We can get into what are reasonable hours or demands in a separate conversation but all things equal, employers are going to pay more for someone who works longer and puts up with more demands.<p>For everything else, when you introduce half the working population to a field that they were once closed off to, wages are going to drop.  I am not pretending that it&#x27;s the only factor but a huge over supply of labor will cause wages to drop; all things equal.