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Being a woman (media.piefed.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder if women's lib was only successful because it happened to align with the capitalist desire to double the labor pool. Is that too cynical? Maybe we still would've gotten there otherwise.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's irritating that you used to be able to run a 2.4 children household on a male breadwinner, and now two incomes is often not enough. We've normalised everyone working and noone able to focus on home and the family.

I guess the idea of the "stay at home dad" didn't take off enough to normalise a single worker after women were able to leave the house.

(I'm aware of the broad strokes hetronormative language here, but it's relevant)

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

I guess the idea of the “stay at home dad” didn’t take off enough to normalise a single worker after women were able to leave the house.

Part of that is women's wages didn't rise to match men's wages.