On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:43:19 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Ed Pawlowski wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On 6/14/2016 10:32 PM, cshenk wrote:
>>
>> > > I don't know why people/morons seem to assume that older women
>> > > never worked outside the home, Hell a lot of us worked outside
>> > > the home as well as doing most of the work at home after work. At
>> > > least these days the husbands, boyfriends etc., are helping out a
>> > > whole lot as a rule with the house and kids.
>> > >
>> > > Cheri
>> >
>> > True on the younger ones helping more but plenty of the older
>> > generation men did too. They were however raised where the mother
>> > didnt generally work outside the home and it probably seemed sane to
>> > them to not think too much about how the floors got mopped and such.
>
>> Of eligible women participating in the workforce, in 1950 it was
>> about 27% while today it is almost 60%
>
>I'm suprised it is that low. It seems more like 80% now.
>
>> Stay at home moms was quite common when I was a kid, not so much now.
>> Lots of things have changed, but back then one person could make
>> enough money in a good job to support a family, buy a modest house,
>> one car. I'm not sure we progressed when we warehouse kids in day
>> care.
>
>We didn't really. Don and I decided one of us needed to be home when
>Charlotte was born and since I was active duty and he had just
>'retired' and my income potential was higher, he stayed home. It was
>tough because the stay-at-home women felt threatened somehow to see a
>man do it with a small child while the wife went to work.

I think you have a high powered imagination - why on earth would they
feel threatened? More likely your husband felt threatened.