Reply #17: "Women at home" is a myth anyway.. and a short lived one at that [View All]

[SoCalDem]

Women have always shouldered responsibilities.. Ancient woman hunted for berries, kept the children from being eaten by wild animals, and tended close-by crops..while the men went on hunting expeditiond..

Less ancient women worked side by side with their husbands in cottage industry type family businesses to get by, and often tended a vegetable garden..in addition to making soap, candles, preparing meals, making the family's clothing from fabric spun by the woman..

Industrial revolution women worked in factories because everyone had to work to survive..even children.

Depression era women took in laundry, did sewing, dis anything to help the family.. even men didn't work much then..

WWII changed to parameters in that women now could do jobs that had previously been exclusively men's work. and they had the added feature of not having the man around to tell them how to spend the money..That's when the mindset changed.. Women , for the first time had disposable income and were free to spend it..Rationing meant that there wa snot a lot to buy, so they saved money and built up a nest-egg.. They got some of what men had always had.. Power..

They were shamed into relinquishing those jobs when the men came back, and sent off to procreate..like they "were supposed to"..Most did this willingly, because they were raised in an era where this was normal, and for some it was great.. The housing deals and car deals gave this group of young people some freedom they had never had before, and they grabbed it with both hands..

Those are "Boomer parents" and they were the FIRST generation to start out on their own , en masse with homes, cars , union jobs for the men.. The people who run America, are mostly from the generation who grew up as children of those people.. They look back to their childhoods and want it back..

The dirty truth is that the life they led as kids, was a snippet of time, and was not self-sustaining or even real..

Women have always worked, except in recent times, they have just demanded proper payment and respect for the work they do :)