Why don’t women go back to being housewives and stay at home moms like in the 1950s?
Women and men have equally important jobs raising a family. As a man you’re responsibility is to go out everyday and work hard to provide for you’re family. The Mothers job is to run a household and take care of children, get them fed and on the school bus and the morning, and to be home when they get home, and to run a household and maintain a house, and great her husband when he comes home. Both jobs are equally important. Somehow women are free working for a corporation, yet they’re slaves taking care of there family.
It's called being prey to advertising and social media. All their lives women are told that they can do and be anything they want, but as the saying goes you can't have your cake and eat it too. Advertisers are telling us to buy, buy now, pay later. Social pressures to work in order to make more money in order to buy more things. Once you want to start a family it gets difficult. It's a mixed up world where stay at home moms are looked down on by the working mom and the stay at home mom envies the working mom making money. We've had decades of conflicting opinions on the topic to mess up the family and relationships. Ideally each gender would do what they are best at to make for happy and well adjusted children.
Because back then the man earned enough to keep the whole family along with things being cheaper, they don't get enough to do that now mostly. Plus women these days have a wish to be equal, sometimes the man is the one with the part time job. Why don't we still live in caves? That was the original arrangement.