Comments on: How Much Have Things Changed? http://www.cosmopolitanconservative.com/2010/01/26/how-much-have-things-changed/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: adrienne http://www.cosmopolitanconservative.com/2010/01/26/how-much-have-things-changed/comment-page-1/#comment-954 adrienne Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:42:12 +0000 http://www.cosmopolitanconservative.com/?p=1674#comment-954 N.S., my point was not about statistics. I'm aware of that. I've frequently written about the Shriver Report. My point was that the messaging was the same. Feminists assert that women were enslaved by the patriarchy prior to the Friedan awakening. That video was filmed long before The Feminist Mystique was written. "Women's issues" were taken up by radical socialists in order to further their platforms for diminished personal liberties and further nationalization of private industry (i.e. nationalization of childcare) and attacks on capitalism as a conspiracy against women. Women would have entered the workforce even without a movement to "liberate" them. Had that happened, women may have had even more choices, like the ability to want to stay at home and be a housewife without having to justify it. N.S., my point was not about statistics. I’m aware of that. I’ve frequently written about the Shriver Report. My point was that the messaging was the same. Feminists assert that women were enslaved by the patriarchy prior to the Friedan awakening. That video was filmed long before The Feminist Mystique was written.

“Women’s issues” were taken up by radical socialists in order to further their platforms for diminished personal liberties and further nationalization of private industry (i.e. nationalization of childcare) and attacks on capitalism as a conspiracy against women. Women would have entered the workforce even without a movement to “liberate” them. Had that happened, women may have had even more choices, like the ability to want to stay at home and be a housewife without having to justify it.

]]> By: N.S. Allen http://www.cosmopolitanconservative.com/2010/01/26/how-much-have-things-changed/comment-page-1/#comment-953 N.S. Allen Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:35:53 +0000 http://www.cosmopolitanconservative.com/?p=1674#comment-953 In 1950, women's labor force participation rate was 34%. Today, it's around 60%. In the 70's alone, their share of management positions in the workforce almost doubled, and, in the 60's, their share of banking and financial positions increased more than three-fold and their share of lawyer positions increased more than six-fold. Prior to the economic collapse, about one-third of American families had women as their primary breadwinners. Question: How much have things changed? Answer: A lot. In 1950, women’s labor force participation rate was 34%. Today, it’s around 60%. In the 70′s alone, their share of management positions in the workforce almost doubled, and, in the 60′s, their share of banking and financial positions increased more than three-fold and their share of lawyer positions increased more than six-fold. Prior to the economic collapse, about one-third of American families had women as their primary breadwinners.

Question: How much have things changed?

Answer: A lot.

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