Reddit mentions of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

Actually OP has a point. With feminism has come the creation of jobs. Nowadays it requires people to work twice as hard for the same amount of durable good.

For example, let a "stuff" represent a portion of a house payment, or a portion of the sum of all normal household products the current standard of living implies at a given point in time.
In 1950 1 stuff cost 1 man-hour. In 2000 1 stuff costs about 2 people-hours.
This means the cost of the amount of stuff needed to survive is that much harder, meaning less folks can stay at home and be a non-wage-earning homemaker.

Part of the reason for this is because of the 100% growth of the corporate workforce per capita since 1900. (ie. women started working)

So when OP says she has to look for a job, she's saying she doesn't have the opportunity to be a homemaker because she needs a job right now, and her claim has weight.

Source - Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in Aftershock

Reich's book Aftershock:The Next Economy and America's Future was, I thought, an excellent analysis of where we are economically, how we got here and why it is broken, as well as providing some sound, reasonably even-handed and excellent ideas about how to actually fix the mess the economy is in. Which is precisely why it'll be completely ignored by anyone with the power to actully take the advice.

Well, it's an excerpt from a book. I assume the book is more comprehensive.

http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Economy-Americas-Future-Vintage/dp/0307476332/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300626919&sr=8-1-fkmr0