"Many women don't realize the reality of what they're actually taking home after they deduct childcare expenses and work-outside-the home expenses."... "Now deduct this number from your monthly salary."

Why is it that these articles always instruct that the WOMAN deduct all these expenses from HER salary? Is not childcare an expense for the wife AND the husband? The more logical way to do this, is to take ALL income - both husband's and wife's - add them together, then deduct ALL expenses related to going to work. So if their combined incomes are $60,000 and it costs $8,000 for daycare, and $1,000 for clothing, etc. then THEY take home $51,000.

The type of thinking promoted in this article makes the assumption (by deducting the childcare from the woman's income) that it's the woman's "job" to care for the children - whether or not she is home doing that. I find that assumption rather insulting for both me and my spouse, and very "Dark Ages"!