“and women were persecuted”
Raising children in the home is persecution?
Only to feminists.
Just three generations ago, everyone worked harder to simply exist.
My Grandfather was a trapper, hunter, and farmer. The farm used horsepower to do the heavy work, but wood for the stove to keep the farm house warm in winter was cut by hand from a mile away, then hauled to the farm by horses, then cut by hand and split by hand to fit the stove in the house.
Water was pumped by hand.
There was no indoor plumbing.
My father grew up on that farm. He learned trapping and hunting from his father.
He got his first tractor in 1949.
In 1800, 83% of people were farmers. In 1860, 53% were farmers. In 1900, about 40% were farmers.
“Raising children in the home is persecution?”
Several years back I had a USAF job where I traveled the countryside doing service work at field stations. On one occasion I had to take along a gal from Madison Wisconsin. We were driving along and met a school bus. She asked what’s that doing out here? I said taking kids to school. She said do they live on farms? I said yes.
Her reply was “That’s child abuse”. This woman was a died in the wool leftist.
I knew she was a sensitive lefty, and made it a point to keep my remarks to a minimum. A couple days later my boss called me into his office and told me she filed a sexual harassment complaint against me. Laughed it off, wouldn’t tell me what I supposedly did, and just said to stay away from her. He made the complaint go away.
I think this is referring to things like bankers refusing home loans or car loans to women, men chasing their secretaries around the office, and so on. If a woman got divorced, even from an abusive, unfaithful husband, she could be subject to shame or gossip. Not long before tha 1940s, women could not vote.
The culture was far, far better in the 1940s, but it had a few blemishes that have been improved.
I grew up with traditional family structure. No mothers complained. They didn’t want to go climb power poles risking their lives to keep the electricity running for the city or emptying trash cans every morning. Put these girls in a REAL job, and not some BS comfy make work job in an air conditioned office and watch how fast they would want to have a husband take care of them and the kids.
Plus..... the cost of living allowed a single earner to cover all the bills.
Hopefully pay the trend takes off.
I don’t think that is what she is referring to