[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Claire Lehmann [@clairlemon](/creator/twitter/clairlemon) on x 247.7K followers Created: 2025-07-18 23:44:19 UTC For most of modern history, a woman’s job was to cart water in & out of the home. Pails of water were heavy & required multiple trips per day—this work made women stoop & caused them pain. The period when women were at home with labour saving devices, indoor plumbing & heating, while their husband’s salary could afford a house & support the family, lasted for a brief window in the 1950s and is now over. The romanticisation of the “trad wife” is confined to that tiny historical window when women were saved—by capitalism—from heavy labour but before they were required to earn a wage to support their families. For most of history, domestic life meant hard labour; the homemaker with shiny appliances & a securely employed husband was a fleeting mid 20th century outlier. This is a period of history that is never coming back (and it’s not because of feminism). XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [mothers](/topic/mothers) [saving](/topic/saving) [women](/topic/women) [Post Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1946355381766373627)
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Claire Lehmann @clairlemon on x 247.7K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 23:44:19 UTC
For most of modern history, a woman’s job was to cart water in & out of the home. Pails of water were heavy & required multiple trips per day—this work made women stoop & caused them pain. The period when women were at home with labour saving devices, indoor plumbing & heating, while their husband’s salary could afford a house & support the family, lasted for a brief window in the 1950s and is now over. The romanticisation of the “trad wife” is confined to that tiny historical window when women were saved—by capitalism—from heavy labour but before they were required to earn a wage to support their families. For most of history, domestic life meant hard labour; the homemaker with shiny appliances & a securely employed husband was a fleeting mid 20th century outlier. This is a period of history that is never coming back (and it’s not because of feminism).
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