American women have broken American society, and they're proud of it for some reason : TrueUnpopularOpinion

These women were making an income AND had to do chores at home too.

Quite rightly. Women's jobs were easy, I'm not making dinner after a day down the coal mine, I'm going to the pub.

That's really only half the picture. The other half is that, before the ~40s/50s, homemaking really WAS a full-time job. Everything had to be washed by hand, including laundry, which takes a long time. Keeping your home clean without a vacuum cleaner takes longer. Cooking used to be more involved as well - I think we take it for granted these days that we have ovens where you just set the temperature and walk away, but not that long ago you had to continuously stoke the oven and keep an eye on the temp because there was no machine that was going to do it for you. And obviously there were no refrigerators or freezers which meant you'd have to cook or go grocery shopping more often.

And obviously these conveniences came to the US first. In other parts of the world this sort of living continued further into the 20th century.

Nowadays homemaking is maybe a 10 hour/week job, depending obv on how many people are in the household, how large it is, how involved your cooking is, etc. But it used to take a LOT longer.

I'm not even accounting for raising children here either.

Was listening to a great courses on the industrial revolution. One of the things that stuck out to me was that there was a 23 year old woman who testified in front of parament in 1840. She worked from 5:00 am to 7:00 pm with a 40 minute lunch break. She had been working at a textile mill since she was 7. Yeah the single income thing is basically a post war American thing. All of my grandparents were working parents, this would have been in the 50's-80's. One of my great aunts could outwork anyone on the farm.

Even before the industrial revolution domestic work was much more intensive than it is today

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