[throwaway35784]

I believe, as did my single mother, that women going to work hurt families also. She said before she died, women "shot themselves in the foot and made it much harder on single incomes to support a family. Women always had a choice to work. Now they don't."

Maybe you have something wrong. Maybe it wasn't more rewarding to go to work. People on their death beds don't say I wish I'd gone to work more. No. They say they wish they'd spent more time with family.