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markodochartaigh

(5,545 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 05:29 PM Oct 2025

Yes,

"Remembering the 1970s, I did meet some less educated married women who resented that women like me "'took male jobs'".

Growing up in the 70's in Amarillo I heard bosses say that they would not hire a woman for a (higher paying) "man's" job. Their rationalization was always that a man had a family to feed. I never heard them say that they would pay a man with eight kids more than a man with two kids or that they would pay a woman with four kids doing a "man's" job the same as a man with four kids doing a "man's" job. And it was just assumed that everyone of working age of the working class would be married. Divorce, even among protestants, was very unusual.

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