[Defiant]

Maybe there are women who are choosing to stay home with the kids because the economy has improved enough that their husbands can now support the family on a single paycheck.

Women who choose to stay home would not be counted in unemployment statistics. The main measure only tracks unemployment among those who are seeking work. There is another measure for those who have been discouraged and are no longer actively seeking work, that is a better measure of true unemployment. It's around 7 percent right now, was like 20 percent under Obama. Homemakers would not be in any of those stats.

[generally]

Good points. Thanks for the correction and the interesting info!

I’m never sure how they’re measuring things. “They” tend to change the criteria to suit their narrative.

7 v. 20 is an amazing stat. I had no idea, but I strongly suspected there were trends like that.