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Bollocks. 100 years ago both my grandmothers had paid jobs, as had many women before them.
100 years ago my grandmother ran a whole train station as 'secretary', while the 'station master' came, smoked, read papers, and pretty much just chilled all day - and getting paid many times her salary.
When they said, "women fought to get paid", they meant, "getting paid commensurate to their work". And in many ways, they are still fighting for it.
Now the "station master's" wife can come in and do nothing while the "secretary's" husband does all the work.
So did mine.
you know what they didnt have? A bank account without their husbands name on it.
My grandmother had to marry in secret because married women weren't allowed to work. That was considered taking a job from a man who needed to support his family.
She wore her wedding ring on a chain around her neck, and one day it fell out when she leaned over. She was fired that very day.
That's what all this talk of double incomes ruining the family is all about. Men don't want women 'taking their jobs'.
Please take my job, I'm sick of it 😭
allegedly
I'd looove to stay at home but the difficult thing is finding somebody who will pay for all that.
What about women who need to support their family?
They were told to ‘get a man’ and often pushed out of work, as they were almost always single mothers, who were seen as ‘sluts’ and ‘failures’.