Until about the 1970s it was common for a man to be the breadwinner buying a house and car and providing for his family.
But the women’s liberation movement forced employers to accept women but the employers paid women less than men. Thus, with higher prices and stagnant wages a man could not afford to pay for a house, car and supporting a family without getting his wife to work outside the home full time, too. The two income family was the new normal. And few women have top, fulfilling professional careers. Most have regular jobs that don’t pay a lot and are boring. Not a way to “find themselves”—just need money.
A female comedian said “A lot of us women every day take a minute to hate that first woman who said let’s try going out to get a job to get out of the house.”
When the sneaky slogan by the unions and Dems “working families” was propagandized everywhere, Rush Limbaugh quipped: “Yes, thanks to the lower wages the whole family including the kids have to work to have what one breadwinner used to provide. Working families.”
That is right on the money.