"Women, holding the distinction of being able to breastfeed, thus more often maintained the home, with men making up a sizeable fraction of the workforce."
-Effects of the Industrial Revolution, Wikipedia

lately i've heard a few grumblings about women in the workforce and the poor, neglected men of the world.  i guess it never goes away.  personally, i'm looking forward to being able to stay home- i told michael, goddamit, i'm not ironing anything, but i do actually like to do laundry.  and i like to cook... for myself.  i like to make banana bread or cookies or biscuits or whatnot.  and i want to have kids- maybe.  but i guess the difference is in the choice,  my favorite word in a disagreement on abortion.  michael said hell, HE wants to stay home.  choice, chance, we'll see.

but i digress.  all the grumblings i've heard lately, or ever heard, have never once brought up this simple point.  because, i give it to wikipedia, it's true.

by no means am i saying women should pack up their office photos and move it back into the kitchen, but it's a good reason of history.  and to all the grumblings i've heard, the reason for the present is, quite simply, things have changed.