You can go back into the 1800s and find examples of women who wanted to have careers. Go to college. Be a doctor. Go into politics. Start a business. They did it because they really wanted to do it.
Most women didn’t want that. So most women didn’t do that. In the 20th century, it stopped being much of an option. Women were expected to have careers and be “just like men”. Women were sold on the idea that this would “make them happy”.
I have known few happy women.
Going back to traditional ways, and finding a path where one income is sufficient for a family so that one works, and one stays home, would be a real recipe for a lot of happiness. Of course, if a woman wants to start a business, be a doctor, or whatever, no one should stop her. But I think most don’t really want that. They just bow to the expectation that they have to live that life.
In the 21st century, real Women’s Liberation means the freedom to go back to being a housewife.
In many places in America, supporting a family on one income would be extremely difficult because of the cost of housing nowadays.
This issue doesn’t get talked about much, but one reason so many wives work nowadays , is because it takes both of their incomes to qualify for a mortgage to buy a house.
“You can go back into the 1800s and find examples of women who wanted to have careers. Go to college. Be a doctor. Go into politics. Start a business. They did it because they really wanted to do it.“
A very simple and obvious truth I’ve been pointing to for years that most people don’t seem to see. For women who were motivated where there was a. Will there was a way.
I totally agree. There are quite a few 1940s movies with “career girls” in them, sassy, outspoken characters played by actresses like Rosalind Russell, Maureen O’Hara, Katherine Hepburn, etc. Women have always had the right to have careers, and some have always chosen to. It’s just that most women didn’t choose that. Now, women “have to” work because they can’t make it financially even with two incomes, or feminism has persuaded them to be single mothers or whatever. Feminism has taken choices away from women instead of giving them choices. I welcome this “trad wife” trend. I hope more young women wake up to what a bill of goods they have been sold.
One of my son’s friends say he pays more for daycare than he does for his mortgage
Now that wages have fallen for men to the point that a middle-class life often requires two wage earners, women do not have much choice.
I have several big deal feminist friends. One was laughing a while back because her daughter said she could not be a wife and mother. It would disappoint mother too much.
Going back to traditional ways, and finding a path where one income is sufficient for a family so that one works, and one stays home, would be a real recipe for a lot of happiness.
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The creation of the central bank in 1913 and printing of money made that a lot harder.