I have thought for a long time that a significant, but unspoken reason, that “everyone” wanted women to work instead of staying home is that a second income provides not only money to the family, but income taxes to feed liberals’ favorite programs.
We ran some tax scenarios with my accountant and found that if my wife chose to quit her job and stay home being house frau, we would actually have MORE money than we do at present since we would keep more of our taxes in the long run.
People want that more immediate gratification even if the end result is less.
Been on that same page for a long time. I have always thought that the government engineered our economy to force the “other half” of the population into the work force for a much more efficient fleecing operation to feed the beast.