Comment by svnt

> But it’s particularly women receiving basic income who experienced the most significant increases in autonomy, as shown in the chart below.

> Image via Pilotprojekt. Study period: March 2021 to November 2024.

> This is likely because women are more likely to experience poverty and economic dependence arising from the gender pay gap, workplace gender bias, as well as the disproportionate burden of domestic and care labour.

These are false. As the author mentions earlier in the article, these are young adult Germans, working for something close to minimum wage, specifically selected to not have children. They are probably not up against any of these issues.

The reason I am frustrated by these dogmatic answers is because this new sexist dogma prevents any curiosity around the real cause of these differences.

For example, perhaps this result discloses a more fundamental reality about female experience that could be analyzed. Or perhaps the population was skewed toward women who were dependent on partner income because they make up a larger part of that income demographic. But it won’t be explored because it is instantly and inaccurately explained away as systemic sexism. It is intellectually lazy.