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Boomers and their stay-at-home mothers
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(10-25-2019, 12:16 PM)Marypoza Wrote:
(08-23-2019, 01:30 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: That's anecdotal evidence. And there were so many bored middle class housewives around. What do the statistics say?

https://www.grunge.com/10181/historical-...men-worked

Lost female workers tended to get kicked out of the paid workforce during the Great Depression. Farm wives of coursed work, and women in certain professions stayed in their jobs. The priority of the politicians of the 1930's was to get unemployed men back into the workforce, and if that meant keeping women out or work, then that was fine. Unemployed men were more likely, as shown in Italy and Germany. Who knows? Maybe the fascistic KKK, which had many of the same hatreds as the Nazi fascists, might have been revived without such a priority.

During World War II, men went off to war, and women became the clerks and industrial workers while their husbands, sons, and brothers were off to war. Military remittance pay was usually inadequate, and women proved more than adequate in the jobs that they took. But once the war was over many of the clerical and most of the assembly-line jobs went back to returning war heroes. Heroic war vets remaining unemployed? Americans still had memories of what went on in Germany, Italy, and Japan -- unemployed, angry men joining armed, politicized militias. Such was to be avoided. 

Women stayed in the workforce if still unmarried or if they had specialized education as in science or engineering -- or the 'female ghetto' of nursing, teaching, and clerical work. Those who got low-paying jobs as bank tellers or sales clerks usually quit after she married, or else she stayed on long enough to get a relatively-inexpensive down payment on a house. Finding oneself in work? Many women went to college, for all practical purposes, to get their "MRS" degrees.

If you think that that is a cynical view of the past... just consider what I think of the current reality in America, where nothing seems to matter except the enrichment and pampering of elites and the enforcement of their command-and-control style of management.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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