Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.
I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.
My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.
This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.
In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.