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[quote=Anonymous][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? [b]Daycare wasn’t a thing[/b]. Didn’t exist. Who was watching the kids of all these moms who were working?[/quote]

Yes, grandma. She worked all her life as a maid, then took care of the kids while my mother worked a job with a salary.[/quote]

So grandma didn’t need to be employed or retired early to watch the kids?

I’m still suspicious about all these working women without any form of childcare.  Doesn’t really make any sense.  My guess is most of these working women were working part time or shift work. But certainly not out of the house from 8-6 PM every day five days a week.  These women would need to be home to prepare dinner, clean the house etc. [/quote]

On a farm (until pretty recently most of America lived and worked on farms), everyone aged 10-death worked sunrise to sundown every single day without holidays.  Kids under 10 were expected to chip in and help when they could.  Mothers and older daughters and grandmothers kept an eye on toddlers and babies in and around housekeeping and other farm work.

For factory workers, days were 12+ hours every day of the week except Sunday.  You had to be healthy to work and there was no sick leave or retirement funds.  When someone got injured or too sick to work (but didn’t die), they might take in laundry or care for local children to feed themselves.  But there were jobs in the factories and the mines for kids as young as 6 — kids weren’t considered to need constant attention beyond the age of like 4.

For people who worked in service professions they either kept their kids with them (home laundry, seamstress, etc) or were excluded from marrying (maid, teacher, etc).[/quote]

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