**But the greater truth is, women have always worked -- except for that brief period after WWII until the early 1970s. During WWII they worked in factories and before that a large portion of them lived in rural environments where they were busy working either feeding something or killing something.**
And women continue to work whether in the workforce or the family/community. And I don't agree that it was economics that gives so many women no choice in raising their kids for the need of two incomes. I think it is the heavy tax burden and reverse discrimination femenazis imposed on society. There are not more women in colleges than men by accident.
And I don't agree that it was economics that gives so many women no choice in raising their kids for the need of two incomes
Few people want to take a "standard of living" hit, even if it means not having a stay at home mom. Most people really do want the "typical" middleclass life, which equals a house, two cars, a couple of kids and a vacation every year. These things are deceptively expensive. A lot of people also want a hedge in case of job loss or divorce.
From what I can see, the feminists kinda rode this trend. No social movement, no matter how zany or well-meaning, can exist without larger economic need for it.