Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025

On 7/12/2025 5:15 PM, Michael Trew wrote:

On 7/12/2025 9:34 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

I hate to break it to you but during WW I and II when the men were overseas fighting women manned the factories and they were making the bombs and other military gear.

 After WWII, the women were "expected" to give up their factory jobs for the men coming back.  I'm sure a number of women did not appreciate that.
 I enjoy watching re-runs of the 1950-1967 CBS "What's My Line" game show.  The producers liked to put on women with unusual jobs, in attempt to throw the panel.  I think the main thing they accomplished over the years was opening up the public consideration to women working what were traditionally male-only jobs.

Times have changed.  When I was a child, few women worked, they stayed home to raise the kids.  It was rare that a mom worked.
In my case, we married in 1966 and just a couple of weeks before our wedding, there were problems where my future wife worked.  She quit and did not work for some years.  Then she ran a small part time (but profitable) business for a few years until we moved.
Many years later, ask our kids.  They liked coming home from school to mom, not a daycare.  Priorities.