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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
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Jan 15th, 2008, 09:59 PM
Feminism has a lot to do with it as it thrust women into the most competitive areas of industry which transofmred the normal household from one where the mother would be home to cook to one where the woman would be working similarly long and exhausting hours as the man.
The social ramifications go very far.
You notice that now you have to have a working mother to support most households? This was caused by the inundation of the labor market which increased nearly 100% if we are talking about taking half the population who normally wasn't working competitively and now having them do so. The worker was fundamentally disenfranchised.
Of course, women did not become lawyers and doctors overnight although that doesn't much matter when many men were working on Assembly Lines during this time.
If the pool of workers for simple manufacturing work and services were to increase 20 or 30% over a decade, the wages would drop exponentially. With that tipping things off, the women who chose not to work now almost have to work to support their family if we are talking working class / middle class families.
Men would also have to work longer hours and so would the women in the workforce to make up for the decrease of relative wages. The result is more women and men working right up until dinner time.
And who wants to cook dinner after an 8-12 hour shift?
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