I would hate to think how things would have turned out had I not been able to work when I became a widow.
That is not what I mean, and is false btw - My dear old Aunt spent her life unmarried, and a spinster living with my grandparents...When she died, her 50-flat apartment building was put in trust to provide education for every kid in the family past me. Her business dealings were made in the 50s and 60s, so the idea that women COULD NOT be in the work force is nonsense. That was never so.
It is a distraction from the truth in that most women should not work if they can help it, because the things the women do, and have done since the beginning of time, go wanting.
Care of the children, care of the elderly, growing and gathering good food, jamming local charities and daily church business... all of it goes wanting.
Uncle Nanny takes care of the old folks now... Uncle Nanny raises and educates the children... Uncle Nanny handles the charity work, and community is defined and governed from DC... So now the women are FREE to work.
Freedom has consequences.