After reading the article, it is interesting where they put the blame for stagnating wages, and then the reason women went out to work.
The way I see it, they missed the boat here. Women started going out to work en masse during the industrial revolution during the war when their men left, isn’t that correct? Then, when their men came home, they went back to their homes and the men took over the jobs they left, and women felt relegated to homemaker again. With all the modern technology that became available to make their home life easier, women became bored and wanted to do “more” than just raise babies and wash dishes, so they started to fight to get out of the house, hence the womens lib movement was born.
Women burned their bras, took contraception to legal status and swallowed it like candy, and entered the workforce by choice in huge numbers. This pushed the cost of living up dramatically due to a much larger disposable income. Women who chose to stay at home were labelled losers, and old fashioned, and were told they were hurting the feminist movement by not abandoning their children in daycare and letting the government raise them to pursue a career.
After only 40 years just look at the destruction of family due to this progressive movement, and one can see it has been the cause of every bad thing this nation is yet to endure. The one thing the feminsts have gotten most women to forget is “the hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world”. With government rocking the cradle the last 40 years, how can we be surprised that socialism/marxism now is in charge?
By the way, I know people who have had the mother stay at home with the kids and it can be done, even in expensive parts of the country. The family just has to do without a lot of material things, many of which didn’t exist in the 1970s or were uncommon (e.g., computers, cable television, cell phones, dvd players, home entertainment systems, video games, etc.).
The baby boomers gave the double whammy to the expectations of American business. Not only were they a larger than usual demographic “swelling” of first-time job seekers, but they included about 30% of the women of that generation! This was twice what the economists were expecting. Because the economy was growing in the late sixties to early seventies, the market for jobs had room to expanded and accomodate the new worker sunami, but the additional, unforeseen labor increase had a cheapening effect on overall labor value. In other words, a half century of devaluation of labor was caused by Women’s Lib!