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>"Working mother" was a non-existent thing. It very much was but not at the relative income level most of HN is at or was raised in so people forget about it.
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>"Working mother" was a non-existent thing.
It very much was but not at the relative income level most of HN is at or was raised in so people forget about it.
- tw04 5y agoWe must be talking about two very different decades. In the 1950s, which is generally the time people think to when talking about the "good old days" the number of women in the workforce was 27%. It had very little to do with income level. Both of my parents grew up dirt poor, both of them had mothers who stayed home. As the children were old enough to all be attending school, one of my grandma's got a job at the elementary school some of her children were enrolled in a few blocks from the house.
- watwut 5y agoIt was 34%. Which is quite literally one in three women. Labor participation of men was much higher, but it is absurd to claim that 34% represents nearly non existent phenomenom.