She Never Had a Chance, And Her Thousand Yard Stare Tells Us She Knows She Didn't.
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I am 74, I remember what life was like for a woman in the fifties and sixties. As with every other change there are good and bad sides to feminism but believe me you would not want to go back to a woman's life in the 50's. I agree that being a stay at home Mom is denigrated right now, but that is not the dominant voice, just one of the loudest. You need to look beneath the media to see what else is happening, many are staying at home, men included, so they can home school. I see it in the people I work with, about twenty percent of our staff are homeschooling :)
I sure hope the homeschool network gets stronger. It's obvious even to the casual observer that the public system is detrimental.
There are plenty of studies showing women as being less happy than they were in previous decades. Sad that they get brainwashed into wanting the "traditional" male role. Yes we have always been providers, but doing 40+ hours at an office or factory is unnatural. It's bad for everybody.
I'm sure it was hard for women back then, especially those that really wanted a career but I wouldn't say it's great for them today either. Substituting family for pets until they get too old and live a lonely life. Very unfulfilled.
Someone once said to me that anyone raised in the fifties was raised by a woman who was insane. You have no idea how bad it was, women had no access to income other than what the husband provided, many were abused and had nowhere to turn, many had so many children that it destroyed them physically. I was there, I saw this.
Remember mother's little helper? In the late fifties and early sixties they started handing out pills to women by the car load all for depression. So then you had unhappy addicts.
The women liberation movement allowed women to work outside the home, gave access to birth control and legal abortion, access to legal aid. Those changes were needed, as with anything much has been subverted but the needs were there.
For example; I had a friend who died from a back ally abortion, another who gave up the child and never recovered from it. Today a woman can make decisions about her life, about a career, about how many children to have that were not possible for a woman in the fifties.
Would you say that women in the fifties had it better or worse than women in the thousands of years of human history that preceded it?