It is, of course, something substantially wrong with the way I am teaching this that feminist concerns are only about a tenth—rather than at least a quarter—of this course, & are, to much too great...
My tiny brain was contemplating what would happen if American society was converted to the perfect society of the domination of the White Christian Male. Women were again relegated to the nursery, kitchen and church? I remember early in my career watching young women being let go when they disclosed their pregnancy. That ain't gonna happen now.
Would the feeling of superiority and domination make up for the resulting poverty?
Women did very well in World War II. It opened all sorts of job and even career opportunities. Between the massive government spending and so many men in the military, women got all sorts of work. Post-war, women were unceremoniously kicked aside. They were fired, flat out, and it's hard to miss the massive propaganda effort to convince women to become mothers and home makers. Twenty years later, they were all going insane.
P.S. Women tend to do pretty well during wars. This has been true since ancient days. I think the attitude was that war gives men something to do.
I was surprised that Professor DeLong didn’t mention it. I knew about WWII. I wonder about WWI. Perhaps he’ll do a post sometime, if I haven’t missed an existing one, about the role of war in modern economic history. My mother worked throughout the war years until I was born (February 1945) and went back to work as soon as my brother was in primary school. (Mid-50s)
Give me time, money, and a production team, and I could make it happen. The problem is that just by myself it takes a full day to get a one-hour video up, and then the lecture does not seem terribly compelling to me—I look down at my shoes, and I write much better than I talk. That can be fixed in pre- and post-production, but that requires cinematographers, time, and money...
> Mitchell W Stewart: This is really good. It would be worthy of a video (e.g., YouTube) lecture along the lines that Elizabeth Anderson or Michael Sandel do.
My tiny brain was contemplating what would happen if American society was converted to the perfect society of the domination of the White Christian Male. Women were again relegated to the nursery, kitchen and church? I remember early in my career watching young women being let go when they disclosed their pregnancy. That ain't gonna happen now.
Would the feeling of superiority and domination make up for the resulting poverty?
What about the war years (1940s)?
Women did very well in World War II. It opened all sorts of job and even career opportunities. Between the massive government spending and so many men in the military, women got all sorts of work. Post-war, women were unceremoniously kicked aside. They were fired, flat out, and it's hard to miss the massive propaganda effort to convince women to become mothers and home makers. Twenty years later, they were all going insane.
P.S. Women tend to do pretty well during wars. This has been true since ancient days. I think the attitude was that war gives men something to do.
I was surprised that Professor DeLong didn’t mention it. I knew about WWII. I wonder about WWI. Perhaps he’ll do a post sometime, if I haven’t missed an existing one, about the role of war in modern economic history. My mother worked throughout the war years until I was born (February 1945) and went back to work as soon as my brother was in primary school. (Mid-50s)
This is really good. It would be worthy of a video (e.g., YouTube) lecture along the lines that Elizabeth Anderson or Michael Sandel do.
Give me time, money, and a production team, and I could make it happen. The problem is that just by myself it takes a full day to get a one-hour video up, and then the lecture does not seem terribly compelling to me—I look down at my shoes, and I write much better than I talk. That can be fixed in pre- and post-production, but that requires cinematographers, time, and money...
> Mitchell W Stewart: This is really good. It would be worthy of a video (e.g., YouTube) lecture along the lines that Elizabeth Anderson or Michael Sandel do.
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