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@RickiTarr
Ok maybe it's different in the US but I was born in 1950s UK. My mother had various jobs outside the home, as did her friends. Being in the country our neighbours were farmers and their trad wives worked on the farm, ran farm shops, drove tractors. One opened a restaurant. Our GPs (local doctors) were both female (and very likely lesbian but no-one asked). Our 'milkman' was a woman. My mother's generation had a history of war work taking on trad male jobs from 1939-45.
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@RickiTarr In my experience, it wasn't just the US "elite" who had stay-at-home wives. My parents were married in the late '40s & I grew up in the '60s and '70s, solidly middle-class, not rich. Maybe two of the families I grew up around had moms who worked outside the home. The one big factor? We were all white. Before Reagan started tearing the middle class down, white men could be sole providers for their families & white women were culturally required to stay at home. @pthane @tanquist

@mfennvt @pthane @tanquist Oh yeah, people used to be able to afford to be a single income household before trickle down economics. I was more saying that all work is real work.

@RickiTarr Oh, gotcha. Complete agreement on that. My mom's work was never really honored. @pthane @tanquist