Seems like you are claiming women being part of the formal economy is exploitation, and preventing women from being part of the formal economy is exploitation?
It is - in the generation of my grandparents one income could feed an entire family AND lead to a house (no vacations though, and not much luxury)
Nowadays even if you have good jobs it really depends on a lot of circumstances if you can afford such a life (albeit mostly with more luxury and vacations) with two incomes.
Same here. To be sure, those women (i.e. my grandmothers) were definitely hard working. Raising lots of children, without "modern" appliances like dishwashers etc. in the household. But the money that came from one income was enough.
> Effectively the worth of income nearly halved.
At least the worth that reaches the worker after taxes etc.
That's the whole point. Now we have two solutions:
- make the playbook less exploitative, leaving to time and resources being shared more equally among people
- get back to a caste system where half of mankind is barred from non-family-related activities.