Comments on: The Pulpit Speaks: January 28, 1956 http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2009/07/12/the-pulpit-speaks-january-28-1956/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2009/07/12/the-pulpit-speaks-january-28-1956/comment-page-1/#comment-151243 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:01:27 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/?p=8477#comment-151243 Yep. And I fixed another word in the opening paragraph that left out a letter.

]]> By: Anon E. Mouse http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2009/07/12/the-pulpit-speaks-january-28-1956/comment-page-1/#comment-151238 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:44:29 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/?p=8477#comment-151238 Women have always worked. Prior to industrialization, they worked side-by-side with their husbands on the farm or in the shop. The thing was, those jobs did not take one away from the children. In fact, the children grew up in the business — even a two-year-old can gather eggs, pick tomatoes, and bring dad a tool. In the era of industrialization, women worked in sweat-shops making clothes, and men worked in more strength-intensive work.

The trouble is, industrial (and office) jobs are generally outside-the-home jobs. As such, both spouses can’t have both a job and a family, unless both are working part-time, and part-time work tends not to pay well or provide benefits.

Your father was indeed a product of his time. (Aren’t we all?) In the decade before this article, the government put out the propaganda of the stay-at-home-mother ideal, with the goal of getting women out of the factories so our returning GI’s, Marines, and Sailors would have jobs to come home to.

In the past, though, multi-generation households were more common, and the grandparents raised the kids while the parents worked. Mothers’ working outside the home is not new. What is new, is Grandma retiring to Florida.

]]> By: Anon E. Mouse http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2009/07/12/the-pulpit-speaks-january-28-1956/comment-page-1/#comment-151235 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:50:32 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/?p=8477#comment-151235 “odd” = “off”?

]]> By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2009/07/12/the-pulpit-speaks-january-28-1956/comment-page-1/#comment-151228 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:53:07 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/?p=8477#comment-151228 Obviously, my father was a product of the times. Women weren’t supposed to want a career – and the idea of a career and family for women simply didn’t occur to many folks. (Of course, it was OK for men to have both.)

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