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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did the older GenX and younger baby boomers in dual working households get it done?  Not teleworking — not in 1999, 2001.  And no professionals in DC lived near their moms then so that also isn’t the answer

I do think commutes weren’t an hour+ each way then. But mainly we just … did it.

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Child of a young baby boomer: I was a latchkey kid and was expected to get places independently at a younger age. These days, my mom would have gotten arrested for leaving us alone for long periods of time, but we had no better choices and it was normal back then.[/quote]

Yes, boomers with working parents basically, did it with benign neglect, latchkey kids, I ate basically a microwave meal for every dinner.

Also back then women were still just working basically pink collar jobs, so they would end the day and come home relatively early compared to a corporate job with a commute. And no activities, except maybe ones you would do after school, it used to be easy to get on the school sports team you didn’t have to train in travel soccer since age 4.

Ask for generation X they actually started the opt out revolution, they realized it was a bad deal and they just did not keep working. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/magazine/the-opt-out-revolution.html[/quote]

Let me disabuse you all of the idea that GenX/younger baby boomers were all working pink collar jobs or part time in 1998. We were full-time lawyers and journalists and doctors and accountants.  Perhaps not the THE Managing Partner of a 1000-lawyer firm — but not all part-time preschool teachers.

In 1999 Washington DC.

But, we still got it done. And our kids were not dining on Cheetos and they did play sports and instruments . But not to the insane degree today’s 8 yr olds do.

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1999? Those are GenX moms. And they were starting the opt out revolution realizing it sucked.

In 1985, 60% of school age moms worked.

But out of all moms, only 15% were professional jobs. [/quote]

Bullshit. Show your cites for those statistics [/quote]

DP - You can't seriously think women commonly had white collar jobs in 1985, can you?  Women's progress in education and in the workforce is very recent.

Here's a table of grad degrees awarded each year in the US and what percent went to women. The last column for doctor's degrees includes law, dentists, terminal degree in education, etc, not just PhDs. Women earned 30% of such degrees in 1980 and 35% in 1985.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.10.asp

Here's a chart on workforce participation that includes all kinds of jobs. Participation - working or looking for work of any kind - is about 50% for mothers of kids under 6 in 1985. 
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/lfp/mother-age-youngestchild[/quote]

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