“This issue doesn’t get talked about much, but one reason so many wives work nowadays , is because it takes both of their incomes to qualify for a mortgage to buy a house.”
It’s a chicken and egg situation though. Are women forced to work because incomes are too stagnant for most single income families to own a home? Or are incomes stagnant because women entered the workforce en masse and devalued the price of labor?
At this point they would just replace women who drop out with more illegal immigration, further stagnating wages.
Close the border, start deportation and as wages rise, more women will go part time or go home entirely.
Then get a smaller house.
My income is just a bit over median yet we did it. We lost all equity in the last recession and had to move to get a job since I also lost my job. Essentially we started over.
Smaller house in a higher cost area.
You do what you need to for what’s important.
Back in college, an economics professor told us that, when more households became two-income, the disposable income increased per household, which led to an increase in the cost of living, to the point where all households had to become two-income.
With that said, for generations, many wives in lower-income families worked outside the home. They worked in factories and cleaned houses and cared for other people's children. The middle-income and upper-income wives, who never had to work, were the ones who started talking about "liberation." They probably weren't thinking of the back-breaking work that lower-income wives wished they didn't have to do.