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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my family, moms have always worked at least parttime, [b]so maybe different from many families in the US where the 1980s was the first time there was a working mom[/b].[/quote]

lol, what??

Before 1980 who were the nurses, teachers, secretaries, waitresses, maids, and seamstresses? The idea that a "working mom" is some modern thing is such nonsense.[/quote]

Unmarried women, single moms or lower class women. My grandma (born in 1932) was an accountant and she was the best one on the floor. When she got pregnant they kept her on longer than any pregnant woman had ever been kept so she could train replacements, but at 6 months pregnant they had to let her go. They didn't hire pregnant women or women with little kids. She had made more money than her welder husband too. All 4 of our grandpas (including dh's) were in the trades- welder, painter, electrician, plasterer and none of their wives worked. They all easily made enough to support a family. Also, daycare didn't exist back then. It existed during WW2 and then it went away. Maybe big cities had daycares.[/quote]

My grandmother was a telephone operator. She worked before kids and then after her kids were old enough to take care of themselves. She was able to enough work long enough to retire with a pretty good pension and health insurance for the rest of her life and all without a college degree. She retired at 60. This type of life/work no longer exists. [/quote]

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