I keep seeing men online complaining about women working outside of the home, as if that were even an option for most women.
Bro, you and what army?
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Ideal is that a woman contribute to the economic productivity of the home but not as a corporate wage slave. Hard to achieve but more possible now than it has been in a century.
Leagues better than in a dehumanizing cubical under florecents and some other man's authority. Or than trying to keep up with the men and becomes feminist boss babe.
Never get a break, though, and everyone expects you to spend all day taking care of the house, instead of working.
That must be quite a house, if she's not done by 10am and ready for a manicure.
1950s had fewer modcons, of course, and 1850s fewer - homemaking was a highly skilled trade. But today...?
Huh? That was clearly a reference to someone working in home-office.
My bad, read it in the feed not the thread
Today they stay home and skip the dishes.
I prefer my women at home, innocently shackled to a radiator.
It's for their own good, I don't want them cleaning and cooking all day (plus, I'm the cook).
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This is also where retrieval of the preindustrial productive home is important too. Because the husband shared in a majority of the domestic duties of the home, as did the children. But because it is still in line with women's nature to be the oikodespot, the burden still falls on her on top of corporate duties.
The best way for this to change is more integrated households, where what we have come to expect as outsourced duties—education, economic activity, hospitality, etc—are all brought back into the home. This can have a variety of expressions, of course, but so long as children are shipped off to school, husband and wife go their own way corporately, and the home is merely a place where a family sleeps and keeps their stuff, it will be more of the same, with people grasping for something like the 50s mythical housewife not realizing what they likely want is a real, integrated household.