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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I’m with you.  I’ve read a lot of Jane Austen, Little House on the Prairie, Little Women, etc.  None of these depict married women with children working outside the home and living in extended family homes.  [/quote]

have you read prairie fires, Laura’s biography? Highly highly recommend. The ingalls women’s lives border on hellish in reality — the worst of both worlds. Ma is a homemaker subject to pa’s terrible planning and manic whims. Laura does work outside the home as soon as she possibly can, until she is married, to another hapless man.  The mothers themselves have too much work to do to leave the house. It’s so far from the idyll presented in the children’s books, which is why I roll my eyes when homeschooling friends I know use the little house series as history books.[/quote]

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