• NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net
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    12 days ago

    My grandmother had to marry in secret because married women weren’t allowed to work. That was considered taking a job from a man who needed to support his family.

    She wore her wedding ring on a chain around her neck, and one day it fell out when she leaned over. She was fired that very day.

    • werty@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      That was considered taking a job from a man who needed to support his family.

      That’s what all this talk of double incomes ruining the family is all about. Men don’t want women ‘taking their jobs’.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        10 days ago

        Or maybe it’s about how dual-income households went from being an option to being a necessity, to still not even being enough to scrape by?

        Maybe the owner-caste should simply be satisfied with exploiting half of the adult population, instead of exploiting every working-age adult?

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 days ago

        Men don’t want women ‘taking their jobs’.

        allegedly

        I’d looove to stay at home but the difficult thing is finding somebody who will pay for all that.

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        11 days ago

        They were told to ‘get a man’ and often pushed out of work, as they were almost always single mothers, who were seen as ‘sluts’ and ‘failures’.