> So you're saying women didn't tend to be excluded from the formal economy? That's news to me. No I’m saying the 1-income household utopia was built on someon

> So you're saying women didn't tend to be excluded from the formal economy? That's news to me. No I’m saying the 1-income household utopia was built on someone doing that work. Usually unseen, unsung, and poorly rewarded. And for lots of people that utopia never existed. They simply weren’t allowed or able to partake. For the record: I’m not saying whether this is good or bad. I’m trying to provide an alternative view of default expectations from a different cultural and socioeconomic background. In my neck of the woods, for example, we didn’t have America’s post-ww2 boom. We were too busy industrializing from a mostly agrarian pre-war economy while also building a new country on the ashes of the old country (we had a civil war on top of the ww2 occupation thingy).