Originally Posted by
jcole
The difference was that staying home and raising the kids was their "job", at least according to conventional wisdom. Now, women leave the home to work and are then expected to come home and do all the work there, too. Men have never been expected to do that. Even when the home was their "job", women worked day and night; daytime cleaning, cooking,taking care of the kids: nighttime, taking care of their man, in several ways. Men came home, sat down, expected some sort of cold drink to be waiting, dinner almost ready, house clean, wife "pretty", kids tidy and ready for bed right after dinner. Then he got to sit and watch the news, have a smoke, etc, while the little woman "red" up the dishes and then "red" up for him.