Consider this Big Business ended up the winner thanks to Feminism.
When inflation kicked in around 1970 women were pushed out of homes into the workforce.
The increased supply of labor helped to lower the cost of labor.
**When inflation kicked in around 1970 women were pushed out of homes into the workforce.**
That certainly happened, but WW2 put a LOT of women in the factories. Some managed to stay on the assembly lines after the drastic reduction of war machines.
Farm machinery saw a big surge in the 50s as larger and more complex equipment were being produced. The Quad Cities (official nickname of Davenport and Bettendorf Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline IL) was the world capital for farm machinery production from the 50s thru the 80s, with John Deere, International Harvestor (Farmall), JI Case, and Minneapolis-Moline all having plants there.
While a minority, women were at those plants. And still are (at the plants that still exist).