.png)
Source : https://archive.ph/RdlTL
So I've been seeing a lot of "trad" women blaming feminism for why they have to work. According to them it's feminism fault for why they have to work and get jobs rather than being a stay at home housewife. This shows how little they know of the past. Plenty of women back then held jobs. Especially during wartime millions of women took over jobs previously held by men since all the men were gone. Even before then plenty of women of worked as maids, worked as family farmer, seamstresses. Even since the dawn of time women worked as gatherers and even hunted small animals. The whole vintage housewife thing you see was only available to middle class or upper class (white) families and was nothing like you see on old TV shows and many were on hard drugs and were abused and even lobotomized.
Not only that but that whole housewife didn't last long but it was not solely due to feminism but also because overtime it became much harder for families to live on a single wage thus forcing women to get jobs shortly after birth to pay the bills.
Women have always worked, all feminism did was advocate for better job opportunities for women and give women another option rather relying solely on a man who could turn on you at any moment. When these women say they hate feminism for making them get jobs it also tells me that they don't think being a housewife is an actual job and that think that all they have to do is stay at home and look pretty for their husbands. Guess what, being a housewife is also a very time consuming job too but the thing you don't get paid and if your husband randomly ends up gone, you'll most likely be left poor and destitute. I'm sick and tired of zoomers and millennials romanticizing the obviously flawed past that they know nothing about and never experienced
Links:
doing household chores, looking after children 24/7, and being your husband's therapist is more labor than most jobs.