Re: Making less than dad did

On May 29, 4:11 pm, Nospam <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Beal wrote:
So we need to drive women back out of the workforce and return to the
days when we all worked in factories!

Sweet, right wingers found yet another category to blame: Women.

Far be it from you to recognize satire.

- first they blame it on poor
- then they blame it on unions
- then they blame it on baby boomers
- now, the women are the evil

But never, ever the corporate greed.

Did at any moment in time were you able to think for a millisecond that
women didn't enter the workforce because they wanted to drive wages down,
but because the cost of life (especially health care, education and
housing) rise faster than wages and the single working parent wan not able
to provide anymore the middle class lifestyle they enjoyed early ?

Personally, I thought it was a social movement that began early in the
20th century, was accelerated by the need for female labor during the
Second World War, and further still by the equal rights movements of
the 1960s. Women were fighting prejudice during the good times and
the bad times. A larger and larger share of them were entering the
workforce regardless of the state of the economy. (Leveling off in
the last decade or so.)

http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab1.htm

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