[Bonnyboy]

Originally Posted by garinda

No, my point was that all the ills of society today aren't down to women going out to work. Your argument holds no water. As the example shows, the majority of women around here have been going out to work for well over a hundred and fifty years. They didn't go into debt to have a better mangle than their neighbours, nor did their children go around terrorising their neighbourhoods.

I’m not suggesting that all the ills of today’s society are due to women going out to work, merely asking for feedback on the initial questions. The women around here may well have been going out to work for many years, I suspect so in many other areas too. The acceptability , generally, of the practice seems to be more recent and on a larger scale.