The assumption here is that if we increase the minimum wage then automatically we're going to lose all these jobs. We've seen workplaces cut jobs back to bare bones. I really don't see how, if we're already at bare bones, we're going to lose all of these jobs because of an increase to minimum wage.
With an increase from minimum wage to a living wage, as we said before, the social and economic factors would be benefiting society as a whole. The money that those women, specifically, as you pointed out, would be making would go back into society. It would be going to buy their kids running shoes. That goes back into the local economy.
Yes, automation is coming. We see it as well, but I don't see a direct correlation between the minimum wage and the automation.