Exactly! Back when 80% of Americans lived on farms, Dad was the only one who worked. That's why school vacations coincided with harvest time. When Americans moved to the city and lived in tenements, Mom and the kids never worked in miserable factories and sweatshops. That's why we never needed child labor laws.
Dad was the only one who worked
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I understand what you are saying, but I would prefer you didn’t word it like this. My grandmothers worked harder than most females today ever did or ever will. But they didn’t work for income. Before modern convienences, homemaking was more work than it is today...especially on a farm. And with 10 plus kids running around in hand washed diapers and homemade clothes out of old flour sacks, the work was unceasing. Gardening, quilting, cooking, canning, helping with the animals...sure, women never used to work. And neither did the kids. Heck, those hayseed kids just ran around all day playing in the dirt and fishing and swimming in the pond, rigth? THat’s why they were so uneducated, right?
Not quite. They all worked themselves to death. THey just didn’t get a paycheck on friday.