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      6 months ago

      None of those charts changes the fact that in 1960 a pair minimum wage workers could have brought a house in about five years.

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        6 months ago

        The woman probably didn’t get the job back then because she’s married and they expect her to quit once she gets pregnant

        I know because that’s what happened to my mother

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          6 months ago

          So, she actually had a job and could have kept it? A quick look at any source, including Superman comic books of the era, will show that there were millions of working women in America in the 1960s.

          You keep proving me right, over and over again.

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            Yes, but she wouldn’t get a promotion because they thought it would be a waste. She ended up having me and being a stay at home mom

            Women entered the workforce, but they had a much higher wages gap vs. men, it wasn’t until the 80s that most women started working