Stupid thread topic.

Take a look outside of the comfy upper middle and middle middle class and observe all the single mothers and married women who are not only the primary wage earner, but are also the primary cook, housekeeper, bill payer, child rearer, lawn mower, etc.   

Then take a look at the vast numbers of middle and lower middle class families where the woman works for about the same or less than the wages of her partner, but works just as many hours, plus takes primary responsibility for running the household.

Then take a look at the households where the wife does not work. The vast majority of these women work very, very hard at keeping house, raising kids, volunteering their time doing important work in the schools, social ministries and civic organizations, town planning boards, and doing "pick-up" childcare at the drop of a hat for working mothers like me when there is a teacher workday, an early school closing for school, or when a neighbor's youngin' is too sick to go to school, but mom, and sometimes dad, doesn't have pto to stay home and can't afford to lose the wages.

Stupid, stupid thread.