Gotta keep the women slaving away in the cubicles rather than raising families. A career is a poor substitute for a family. I have slaved away at the law mines for 40 years for my family. Without my family, I would have taken it much easier. The family made it all worthwhile.
This is brilliant!
A little too real to be funny.
Women in the workforce is a complex issue.
If you’re a woman and you walk into a job interview and tell your potential employer you are looking to take leave to have a baby, you are not likely to be hired. Employers want an employees full uninterrupted commitment. That’s the reality.
Also, on another note, unfortunately with the cost of living today, more women have to work to support their husbands and families. I think the stay at home mother is becoming a rarer.
*becoming a rare thing.
When I grew up some 8 plus decades ago, the few women who worked were either nurses, teachers, or secretaries/cashiers etc. Most were also heroic family mothers and the glue that held the whole thing together, inch by inch and day by day. God bless them and that wonderfully simple life back then.
My Mom worked to put food on the table. She waited until my brother and I were in school to do so.
When I grew up some 8 plus decades ago, the few women who worked were either nurses, teachers, or secretaries/cashiers etc.
About 1/4 of the non-agricultural working population was female in 1930. About 20% of the population was living in households with farm income at that time. Farm wives are busy and diversely skilled. By 1957, about 1/3 of the non-agricultural workforce was female. (IIRC, about 10% of the people lived in farming households). The big change in the last 60-odd years hasn’t been women moving into the workforce, but (1) mothers of pre-school children taking wage and salary employment and (2) women moving into professional-managerial occupations. Professional-managerial occupations account for about 15% of the working population. (Women in such occupations in 1957 accounted for < 5% of the whole and were commonly spinsters).