What sort of propaganda campaign has been going on that even feminists and progressives believe that for millenia most women were housewives comfortably living on their husbandâs income??? All of the âdonât be sad if you canât keep up with all of the chores on top of full time work, just a few decades ago it would have been one person in the relationshipâs whole job! [they always use gender neutral language for this too lol]â the âhousewife eraâ was such a thin slice of human history, applied only to a small percentage of women, bolstered by very cheap domestic labour/slavery. And it didnât end because women went on a feminist journey of self-actualisation, (so all of the âconcernsâ about whether feminism âwent too farâ and that âwomen nowadays are being expected to do too much because of feminismâ are bullshit) it ended because of economic factors, women already being in the workplace and fighting for better legal working protections. The self-actualisation was part of the feminist wave responding to this and encouraging women already needing to work to become empowered by it. Women were already expected to make ends meet with husbands drinking and gambling away their incomes, raise the kids and keep the house in order, often with work on the side.