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The average work week in the 1920s was about 50 hours. The 40 hour work week was only standardised in the 30s, mainly as a response to huge increases in product

• lostlogin 8y ago
  > The average work week in the 1920s was about 50 hours. Apply that to a household and the average family didn’t have 2 parents working 100 hours in paid labour. The typical breakdown was likely a male in paid labour and a female mostly doing household chores. There was about 60 hours per week of household chores in 1900, and that was down to just under 8-15 by the 1980s [1, 2]. The number of hours that are spent at work would appear to have declined for males and females, through when unpaid work is factored in, a household consisting of a male and a female shows a much less dramatic decline. This brings us to a household work week total back at somewhere around 100 hours. Sort of what you said, but sort of not. [1] Table 7. https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/ https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/ [2] https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours