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[quote=Anonymous]Its a weird discussion that only people in the last 75-100 years can have. My great-grandmother, whose life I know the most about and was probably fairly typical for a farmwife, certainly worked although she probably only intermittently got any kind of payment for anything she did after she got married and stopped teaching.

She worked every day except Sunday (and even then had to take care of the animals), doing all of the housework by herself without electricity or indoor plumbing; cooking/cleaning/washing clothes and kids with water she pumped, hauled, and heated herself and soap she made herself; planting/weeding/picking/preserving food; caring for the chickens, dairy cow, pigs, and goats every day and making cheese and butter; butchering, preparing, and preserving every scrap of meat from the animals--which took 48 hours straight in the case of the pigs; and making or repairing most of the household clothing and bedding. That's off the top of my head, I'm sure she would list 20 other things she routinely did that I can't even fathom these days. Plus she had kids underfoot and/or was pregnant or nursing. A person can do in less than a day what took her a week to accomplish.

Women work outside the house now because, compared to the first 100,000 years of humankind, there is hardly anything that we must do in the home all day--food and shelter are easily taken care of, and there are safe places for children--and working outside the home is an attractive and workable option. [/quote]

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