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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, you seem to forget that civic America used to run on... sah moms! Church groups, league of women voters, all kinds of volunteer organizations, etc. Educated women who had the time and attention to engage with society. Is it really better for society to have every parent scrambling bt work and childcare, with no time for reading, community activism, etc?[/quote]

I think this is very true, and it would be great if we structured society so that people could have all their necessities covered with one person working full time, or two people working full time, or (gasp) a single person who could take a paid maternity leave. In a world where many of us are hustling harder all the time (and for me that's not so I can have a bigger house or fancier vacation, but so I can pay my rent and have health insurance) does wear away at our family life and at our civic society.

I found this to be a useful book (JHU professor) if anyone else is interested:
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/knocking-the-hustle/[/quote]

Is this really true? Women have always worked.[/quote]

Upper middle class and wealthy women didn't work. In the 1950's-70's most middle class married women didn't work, or else that was the "ideal".[/quote]

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