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And the majority of women DIDN'T work back then, or they worked then married. Not all, but most. Even up to the 1950s it was around a 30/70 split when it came to women who worked versus women who stayed at home. It was even less before then. It is safe to assume that most women were homemakers back then because it is fact. That and they were not career women as we know them today by a long stretch. The women who went to work during the depression did so because they needed to eat, not because they decided they wanted a "caree-ah". Prior to the depression the small percentage of women who worked were overwhelmingly of the lower working classes.
this is a good explanation of why I find it so personally terrible to basically "throw the 70% of those women under the bus" IMHO.
What these 70% did was work and kept us all alive. Made homes, raised children, helped their husbands.
I so wonder what this present time would look like if those 70% would of stayed home.
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