I am a woman, and I remember the times you reference. While I cannot disagree with anything you say, I think you need to add to the discussion a fact that is seldom brought up.
Many full-time homemakers bought into a view that their husbands had, i.e., that the work the women did was not that important. There was no paycheck involved, so the work was really not so special and anyone could do it. Sadly, that attitude continues.
Taking care of your own children is a very emotionally trying undertaking. It can be draining. That’s why so many women would rather pay some stranger to do it for them.
Being a full-time mom is hard work, no doubt about that. However, times get a bit easier when the kids are away at school during the day.. Career moms thought ‘careers’ would be easier. SURPRISE! You have to work during the day when the kids are at school then you have the kids home at night after your hard day at work. My mom says women really screwed up for buying into that way of life. Yeah yeah some women had no choice but women as a whole made the choice to see to it that eventually there’d be no choice. Men no longer have a purpose in life because women can ‘do it all without them’. Perhaps this is why men are being slowly marginalized down a path to nonexistence.