https://theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/dads-quiet-revolution
"The 1970s and ’80s were a transformational period for the American household.
As women increasingly exited the traditional role of housewife and entered the
workforce for good, the time that women and men spent working versus homemaking
began to converge. By 1992, the gender gap in hours spent at a formal job had
shrunk nearly in half.
Famously dubbed the “quiet revolution,” this era was unique both because of its
rapid pace of change and the novel shift in women’s identities. For the first
time, they could be a wife and mother
and a careerist.
But the workplace vs. household time convergence between the genders never
quite, erm, reached equilibrium. Though it did continue into the
millennium—albeit more slowly—by the late 2010s, it had largely stopped.
Then the pandemic happened."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
