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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question is inherently stupid,[b] given that the majority of women have always had to work to help their families survive. [/b]

This conversation is for a few privileged women to kvetch over. The rest of us know that this world will never be good for women and girls until we crush the patriarchy and stand on truly equal footing with men in all areas of life.[/quote]

This is often repeated on here. That only white women in the 1950s stayed home.

But I find it hard to believe that all of these women were working full time out of the house jobs. Why? Daycare wasn’t a thing. Didn’t exist. Who was watching the kids of all these moms who were working?[/quote]

Extended families lived together and elder women often cared for younger children while their mothers worked out of the home. Beyond that, until a few generations ago, most children were working themselves while they were still in single digit ages and that remains true in much of the developing world.

The notion of happy mothers at the hearth with a brood of chubby babies and toddlers and such, making bread and crafts - that is not what life was for the majority of women and children and is still not what life is for the majority of women and children in this world. Western women in developed countries have a myopic view and maybe this is why we don’t appreciate how good we have it - although I wholeheartedly agree we are still getting the shaft.

Capitalism isn’t healthy for children, women, the environment, etc. [/quote]

Extended families with older generation care givers isn't possible when you normalize having kids in your 40s. [/quote]

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