I also suspect that by doubling the supply of labor, they probably depressed wages significantly, so it was all for nothing, from a family’s point of view.
Exactly. Oftentimes, a couple MUST have 2 incomes just to stay afloat.
Exactly. People don’t seem to understand what a total revolution we’ve lived through. What an amazing economy we have that it absorbed a doubling of the work force in a mere 20 years. We won’t know all of the ramifications of this experiment for 100 years.