Why do people insist on saying women working is only a modern idea (feminist at fault) when historically women have worked one way or another?

[BlackBeauty90]

Historically women have always worked in one way or another.

Farmers wives cured hides, baked pastries and sold produce at market
Sailors wives made & sold necklaces, etc. out of whatever their husbands brought back
Miners wives made & sold curtains, bedsheets and many other items.
And many other roles

Above has been going on for centuries. Herbalists & wise women - who compensated for the lack of readily available doctors - have been around for a very long long time.

During times like World War I & World War II countless women took to factory and other "man" jobs to compensate for the lack of men either in the USA, Canada or UK as example

This is all historical facts.

Taught pretty much in varying degrees throughout high school & college so very bluntly put people that don't know this didn't graduate minimal basic schooling in America at least.

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So many blame feminism for a "change" in women working because they lack basic education & simple intelligence. What feminism changed was equal oppurunity to apply for education & jobs... nothing else... feminism didn't magically mean women could now work.

Feminism after all was started by "golddiggers" that were bored of their do-little lives married to wealthy or well to do men.

There is not one poor women in the original feminist ranks. Google it, educate yourself.

So to such women of course working was a novelty whereas their poor neighbors wives, sisters & daughters had always been working.

[Anonymous]

Women have always worked throughout history, even though some people mistakenly attribute the idea of women working solely to modern feminism. Their roles have evolved, but they have always contributed to various aspects of society. ﾠ ﾠ

[EricSummer]

People have a short memory I suppose. There was a period from 1945 to about 1968 in which lots of women became housewives across different social layers of society. This was unprecedented. Many conservatives see this as their golden age that they are longing back to.

There had been something similar already in the late 19th century, but still more for the wealthier classes as you pointed out. At that time, some male scholars invented a matching prehistory in which even the cave people kept the women in the cave or at maximum gathering berries nearby.

I think we have to be more open-minded and flexible when exploring the "natural state" of how women and men can live and work together.

[katiesmuff]

Usually only arrogant men are the one's guilty of using that phrase!

[BlackBeauty90]

I don't know if it's arrogance or inferiority. There's a number on forums that say they want a woman dependant upon them. In earlier years such households were typically prone to abuse cause well bluntly there was no easy means for a woman to leave.

[DextroShade]

The difference between the historical examples of women working and modern feminist working women is this: the women of the past worked to help support their husbands, their families, or their country in the case of the WWII example; the modern feminist works only for herself so she doesn't need a man and she can spend her money on pointless crap she doesn't need like designer shoes and purses or beauty products so she can get attention. The traditional working women selflessly put their families above themselves while the modern feminist is a selfish narcissist who will probably die alone.

[inhua]

feminism didn't make women's lives better as their revisionist history would have many people believe

it was invention of new technologies that made women's live better. washing machines replace hand washing, vacuum cleaners replace broom sweeping, kitchens got more advanced stoves, pillows and mattresses replaced rocks and logs, air-conditioners replacing fireplaces, cars replaced horses etc.

[Mansearching]

I'd rather my girlfriend or wife work. It takes all the pressure off me of working up-teen jobs to pay the bills. Then we can easily save money to do other things.

But to truly answer other part of question is. Its same people who say, "Woman's right to vote destroyed America." Those people are idiots.

Women are people. They are the same as men. Only difference is the penis and vagina. Would say breasts but seen men with bigger breasts than their wives... lol.

[Anonymous]

Sure, women have always "worked" in one form or another, but the notion of women paying others to raise their children for them five days a week so they can have a career is a recent development, and one for which feminism is definitely responsible.

[jshm2]

You're not the brightest.

What they mean is women working equally, is largely a modern idea.

Though not in Muslim and Chinese empires, as women held high stations there well before the West and Christians allowed it.

[BlackBeauty90]

If it's a modern idea then how could that have been the case in Muslim and Chinese Empires long before it happened in the West Christians?

You're so dull witted that you actually contradict yourself in your own sentence.

By the way during colonial America business owning and land owning a woman, who owned by themselves and who did exist, had more voting rights then 90% of the men could imagine or dream of in the 1800s.

Maybe you should educate yourself simpleton?

[BlackBeauty90]

@jshm2 woman still don't work equally you uneducated twit otherwise you would have a 50/50 split in every profession. You are a complete dullard

[Staximus]

Poor women have always had to work in some way or another since the beginning of our existence. Not having to work or do any manual labor is a luxury few people could afford for most of history

[Dargil]

Working away from home and family, other than special circumstances is what has changed.

[TonyMetal___86]

Working or not, i always prefer the housewife for myself...

[BlackBeauty90]

Why?

[TonyMetal___86]

Because i like women who adores becoming a housewife, i'm a traditional man when it comes to gender roles, women work inside the house and men outside...

[DarkLegacy]

It is a modern idea to get women into mens jobs

[BigDog1989]

Most were slaves, and white women who did work, made very little or none

[HaveNoName]

Women working has NOTHING to do with feminism.

[Anonymous]

Do you want an answer or are you just looking for a fight?

[sheikalana]

All women in my family before me had jobs.