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The irony is that now there isn't a choice in the matter, both parents have to work.
Women don't respect men that don't work and bring home a larger paycheck. With vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliance inventions housework is no longer a full time job.
I was very happy when I worked and my husband stayed home. I loathed being a SAHM. It has nothing to do with how user-friendly my appliances are. The tedium, repetition and the mind-numbing cleaning, laundry and cooking were enough to send me over the edge. If someone wants to do it and enjoys it....great. It wasn't for me. I felt my brains turning into oatmeal.
And lots don't. If being a stay at home parent and house-spouse is so special, why aren't more men doing it? See how YOU like being chained to the stove and sink and diapers.
If I was married and the woman could make as much or more than me I would love to do it.
Women don't respect men that don't work and bring home a larger paycheck. With vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliance inventions housework is no longer a full time job.
It's probably just as much work, instead of things getting washed once every week or two they get washed after each use....
1) Women working is an economic necessity for most families today.
I already stated that my first post, it's unfortunate. young children should have a parent at home during their early years. That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.
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2) Test scores may be lower, but our education is actually better.
They had vacuums and kitchen appliances in the 50s too.
LOL... my Grandmother still owns some of them.
She just got a new stove and hates it. The cost for the burners for her old one were ridiculous though. She has this awesome toaster, when the toast it done it just slowly rises out of the toaster.
The irony is that now there isn't a choice in the matter, both parents have to work.
Women don't respect men that don't work and bring home a larger paycheck. With vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliance inventions housework is no longer a full time job.
Maybe not housework (though the work often expands to fill the time available; women who stay home have neater, cleaner houses than people like me), but child care is a full time 24/7 job!
People are saying women are in the workforce because of a liberal conspiracy. No silly, it's because most families need 2 incomes in this day and age.
That's become a chicken and egg kind of question. Part of the reason why 2 incomes are "needed" is because when women started going back to work, they had 2 incomes to spend on housing. That jacked up the price of homes as well as other goods....which created a larger and larger economic penalty for women who wanted to stay home.
Even liberal, Elizabeth Warren admitted this in her book The Two Income Trap, written a decade ago.
One income was enough....woman became liberated and the financial institutions figured out one thing ,,,,,,,that instead of one victim to prey on they now had two,,,they doubled their money and woman got duped
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