> In West Germany, the husband could legally forbid his wife to work until 1977(!). That's a feminist myth. He could only cancel her contract and only if he co

> In West Germany, the husband could legally forbid his wife to work until 1977(!). That's a feminist myth. He could only cancel her contract and only if he could prove in a court of law that she abandoned her "home duties". It is also not known how often this law was actually enforced in reality, if at all. The other way around, husbands were legally required to provide for their family, that was their duty. So while I think that it's wrong to have fixed gender roles enforced by the state, please stop pretending that this was a one-way-street.