How long ago was the norm of women being housewives abolished?

Answer 1

It's never been abolished.

Answer 2

Women have always been educated in rates similar to men in this country. They chose to be full-time wives and mothers rather than use their education to make money. It was seen as an either-or decision - either marry *or* be a career woman. It's not seen that way anymore.

Still, of married women with children under age 6, more than half are housewives and don't work for pay at all. Another quarter or so work 20 hours a week or less, often without using very much non-family care for the kids. A minority work fulltime, and of those, some are themselves daycare providers from the home, or are splitting shifts with hubby, or have grandma or husband as the 'at-home 'mom'".

So housewives have not actually disappeared. They are, however, overshadowed by the many single moms, or women whose children have grown into adulthood, or recent divorcees that must work. But an awful lot of married women still want to be their child's primary caretaker. It's actually THE most common profession in the world, and that includes in the US. There are far, far more housewives than there are lawyers, for example, and no one is asking where all the lawyers disappeared to.

Answer 3

The whole "women are housewives" was never the norm for the vast majority of American families. It was an ideal to be aspired to, (and sometimes achieved) by the wealthy and professional classes.

Working class families, where the man worked in a factory, or at some other manual job, almost never made ends meet, and the women frequently worked in industrial jobs, retail, or other outside-the-home work.

And before the industrial revolution, women were generally farmwives, but that involved gardening, cash labor at trades like dressmaking or midwivery, and other work outside the usual idea of housework.

So--the norm of women being housewives? It never existed.

Answer 4

I don't think it has been abolished. Women are still the primary caretakers of home and hearth. If their husbands/boyfriends pitch in, they are "helping" with the housework, they aren't just doing the housework. But when a women mows the grass, she is mowing the grass...not helping her husband with the yard work. This may sound like a petty thing----the language we use regarding housework----but it's indicative of the fact that traditional roles are still clearing in the mindset of most people.

Answer 5

The IMAGE of all women being housewives was abolished between 1963 and 1970, when second-wave feminism began. Women usually did work, often out of necessity.

Answer 6

Nothing was ever abolished. Women entered the workforce in large numbers (beginning in the late 1970's) in part because the husband's highly paid blue collar, unionised factory job -

was outsourced to Brazil, etc. where there are no trade unions and the cost of labour was infinitely cheaper.

No strikes to worry about either.

Answer 7

I think that the 70's had a lot to do with that. But it has progressed over the years, and more opportunities for women to have great careers will make it even less of an "option".

I also think that the desire for couples/families to have more makes it necessary for a dual-income situation. If both the husband and wife are making $60,000.00 per year, that is a household income of $120,000.00 - imagine what one could do with that?

Answer 8

Did they be attentive to you have been staring at? i could choose for B or C till you're a seahorse. a working laptop or computer literate seahorse. wherein case you would be mendacity besides, by making use of pretending to look like Clint Eastwood.

Answer 9

It depends on what group of women you're looking at. If you look at poor women, you will see that they have always had jobs. Being a housewife is a luxury that is largely reserved for middle class or upper class women.

Answer 10

Well in the 1920's aka, roaring twenties. The role of american women began to change for example; women were starting to receive higher education, which then led to them getting jobs instead of being a housewife.