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I'm guessing you're a guy? Women entering the workforce was good for them because like any teenager knows (boy or girl), true independence happens when you earn your own money.

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Good for individual women who genuinely want to work, bad for women as a class when everybody does it because now even those young-ish married women who would have been happier raising the kids have to work because of the incrementally lowered cost of labour.

Some people making a choice causes a cascade, taking the choice away from everyone else, kind of like car ownership in the mid 20th century.

(And bad for all the men, too.)

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