Why did the economy change that we need 2 full-time breadwinners as opposed to 1 less than a decade ago?

Question

Edit: I meant less than a century ago! My bad! Just a brain fart.

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Answer 1

10 years ago 57.4% of women worked.

Today 57.4% of women work.

In 1989 57.4% of women worked.

In 1965 40% of women worked.

[source](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002)

That’s definitely a shift – from 40% working to 57% working, but its not really all that different for most people.

My mom was a painter in the 80s. My grandma worked at a car parts factory in the 60s. My great grandmother worked at a publishing company. I didn’t have any friends in the 80s whose moms didn’t work.