Where did the single-breadwinner, stay-at-home wife myth actually originate?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

This was never the case in American history and certainly not word history. In American history men held 12-hours-per day jobs and worked 6 or usually 7 days per week, AND the women had jobs too. If you check the Book of Proverbs, it tells you a "virtuous woman" works: she is either a business owner, a farmer, or at the very least a Seamstress.

There has NEVER been a time when the woman could just sit on her ass at home watching soap operas and changing diapers, and expect a man to "provide for the whole family" by himself. Least of all since parents are now expected to buy their kids college and first automobile too. It's ridiculous that WOMEN actually think a man is supposed to be able to do all that in one lifetime. Who lied and told everyone that a child should get a free automobile anyway? They should have to work for it like everyone else.

Fricken "entitlement" mentality is killing all of us. Women think they are entitled to a man's entire paycheck on top of a death oath too. It doesn't work that way. Never has and never will.

Women don't want to have children anymore anyway, because there's something dysfunctional about our entire civilization, so what do you think you're supposed to do? Sit on your ass and watch television all day long? Get off your ass and get a job and work overtime like the man does every week too.

Equal pay? Do an equally skilled and equally difficult job equally well to a man, and you'll get equally paid.

I got $6000 in my bank account, and I'm willing to bet $1000 of it that not one woman on this website could do a Carpenter's Helper job for 30 minutes in July in Louisiana without crying and giving up, and Carpenters, who do MOST of the work on building your house, get paid the LEAST of all blue collar trades.

Even my college professor said, in order for someone to be rich, someone else needs to be poor. Women expect every man to be a millionaire, and it doesn't work that way.

[LazerBean]

Yes there's never been a time in history where women sitting at home watching soap operas was socially acceptable. Not in the past, and certainly not now. Everyone is expected to work a paid job today. The lives that a large percentage of our grandmothers led is frowned upon today.

[msc545]

So the same women spend hours and God knows how much money making themselves look as attractive as possible in the hope of catching a man. When they don't, they keep right on doing what they've been doing over and over and over again until they get old enough that no man wants them anymore, if even one wanted them to start with.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

Im unsure where you get that idea? Nearly half of women in the late 1960s were stay at home mothers. That is after WW2 where women took more influence over the work force out of necessity. Historically, most jobs were not open to women.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

The reason for the change is due to the economy. Income has not kept up with inflation. Now you can have a fill time job and barely afford rent in HUD aprtment. In the past you could realistically live off a single income. My grandfather never worked a high paying job and was able to afford a house, car, large yard while my grandmother did nothing more than be a school secretary at times. That is impossible now.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Raising minimum wage actually is the primary driver of inflation. the reason food costs so much money is because California has a $20 minimum wage for farm helpers. There was a time when a Carpenter contractor was lucky if he cleared $20 an hour. I hear in California they are paying up to $60 an hour now to start for licensed carpenters, and that's probably not enough, because as I said, Carpenters are usually the least paid trade labor job, even though they usualy do most of the work.

Anyway, every time they raise the minimum wage the middle class shrinks and we get more poor people. When a Gallon of Milke costs $5 and it used to cost $1, you're not gaining anything by raising minimum wage.

[exitseven]

When I was growing up just about everyone's mother stayed home.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

BS. I'm not that much younger than you, and everyone in my family worked for a living, except my Grandmother on my mother's side of the family, and she was just hopelessly fat and lazy.

[jshm2]

Lol, you need to lay off the crack sunny. Get some help.