I'd say not quite. Women have always worked. Women worked hard, and they still do. Even Proverbs in the bible talks about the wife being wise and effective in business dealings. And yes children were handed off to tutors, pedagogues, and non-family child care since time immemorial.

What's changed is the work environment. We still have a lot of uncovered assumptions that are just wrong. Our problems are downstream from a post industrial paradigm impacting both work and educational environments... certainly a big player has been predatory, vulture capitalism and zero-sum thinking in our economies; the same problems that exploit third world populations have also, in our "first world" society, effectively decoupled both parents from a vibrant, supportive family dynamic. Quality family time and "career" didn't have to be diametrically opposed.

I'd say not quite. Women have always worked. Women worked hard, and they still do. Even Proverbs in the bible talks about the wife being wise and effective in business dealings. And yes children were handed off to tutors, pedagogues, and non-family child care since time immemorial.

What's changed is the work environment. We still have a lot of uncovered assumptions that are just wrong. Our problems are downstream from a post industrial paradigm impacting both work and educational environments... certainly a big player has been predatory, vulture capitalism and zero-sum thinking in our economies, the same problems that exploit third world populations have also, in our "first world" society, effectively decoupled both parents from a vibrant, supportive family dynamic. Quality family time and "career" didn't have to be diametrically opposed.