The development of contraception was a game changer. Before it existed it was exceedingly difficult for women to work as men did.
In the past, men did not WANT to keep women out of education and the professions. In order to maintain the population when so many children died, women got pregnant a lot. Tough times for everyone.
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I thought it was the 20th Century household inventions of the refrigerator, automatic washing machine, microwave oven, tampons, and automatic dishwasher what dunnit. One was invented by a woman, you know.
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Female sanitary products such as tampons played their part along with contraception no doubt. The other things made everyone's life better. Don't care who invented them.
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patriarchy, mostly invented them. Oppressing women to have more time on their hands whereby fems could have invited men to fairly share in their family-filled lives,or gone to join the men in rat-raced stressed-filled live-to-work roles. Sadly,the latter.
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And when non-pregnant, unattached women were turned away from higher education institutions?
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Exactly. My Grandmother told me about how her Mother pulled her out of school to get married when news of war with Japan broke. Literally to make sure there would be enough Chinese left to rebuild the civilisation.
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Being Overseas Chinese, they realised despite not knowing how to read or write, that for a culture to exist, you needed people to live that way of life.
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My Grandmother would tell me how her Mother fought to get her married despite opposition from her Husband and Father-in-Law because they wanted her to get educated so she could find a good husband in an English college. Her reply was, “If there are no Chinese to cook and ...
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... dress, then what good will all this education be for? Where will the Chinese be if all they know is Japanese and Japanese cooking?!”
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There were literally prohibitions in place... Try reading some more... Start with Virginia Wolf's A Room of One's Own
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True. Past life was hellish in many ways for people. Men and women worked together the best they could to raise families and persevere. Technological and medical improvement changed things for the better. The West embraced equality. The Left backstabbed us with modern feminism.
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True, I know an old lady who lost 7 siblings. 3 survived. My maternal and paternal grandparents had 8 kids each. My parents have 4, I have 3, and my siblings have 1, 1, and 2.
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Many prestigious private female schools were founded because men wanted women of education to be their equal. An educated man needed an educated woman. They still do.
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Medieval villages did not have doctors, if they were lucky they had a couple of oldish, experienced women that knew how to set bones and get babies out of mothers one way or another...
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You must be writing a book
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Fun times too.....!
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What is the optimum amount, in numbers, wrt population the earth can sustain?
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yes, they did. women were said to be ‘too emotional’ to make decisions, so the man went to education, worked, voted and did everything.
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people actively didn’t hire women
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