HOWEVER, this is a new trend, in that for many years, until manufacturing and other blue collar vocations were transferred out of the country, traditional "women's work", "pinkcollar" jobs were far less renumerative than male jobs. It is the loss of those blue collar jobs as much as an improvement in the wages of non-degreed women, that has resulted in this trend.
It is a serious situation for any non-skilled, non-degreed worker of either sex.