"But society has stuck you with all this extra shit!" is not a good, moral, or acceptable response to "I am less able to pay my bills."
https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/08/Labor-Force-Parti...
While the employment rate for "Married women, spouse present" doubled from 1955 to 1990 (which may be what you're referring to), the rate for "All women" between 1985 and 2005 went from 55% to 60% (and falling).
> After being bombarded with questions about food inflation, [The Federal Reserve's] Dudley attempted to reassure his audience by putting rising commodity prices into a broader economic context — but that only made matters worse.
> “When was the last time, sir, that you went grocery shopping?” one audience member asked.
> “Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful,” he said.”You have to look at the prices of all things.”
> This prompted guffaws and widespread murmuring from the audience, with one audience member calling the comment “tone deaf.”
> “I can’t eat an iPad,” another said.
Now, if working class people spend less than average on iPads, then the inflation they experience will be different. But the government isn't going to produce dozens of different inflation metrics for different groups. Maybe they should - it's theoretically possible to calculate inflation based on consumption groups. Margins of error would be higher. But to suggest that they should just exclude quality improvements on technology completely is wrong.
But that's besides the point. A $200 smartphone doesn't balance out food and housing prices.
> one side of the story
Fu that sh.