2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 'Bernie or Bust' is not a tantrum [View all]beltanefauve
(1,784 posts)If you worked 40 hours a week, at a minimum you could expect to not be in poverty. Most families, in fact, could be homeowners and feed their families on one income. Today's youth have never seen or known of this.
In the early 1970s, "Womens Lib" came about. It wasn't just about burning bras. There was also cigarette advertising on TV and advertisers were telling us we would be more liberated if we smoked their brand. Womens Lib, both good and bad, permiated our culture. And with it, the big question: should women work outside the home? In retrospect, I wonder if we were being set up for the lowering of our standard of living. It wasn't long before we had to have double incomes to maintain what we had, and from there the decline happened, and in ernest.
And to this day, women still get paid 79 cents per dollar that men get. I can't believe we're still fighting so many battles.
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