I’ve been thinking about this for decades. As a teen in the 1960’s, I don’t remember mothers fretting about not being able to have a career. I don’t believe the Women’s Lib movement was organic. I believe it was the first attack on the American family and first necessary step to usher in communism.
There are many ways the power mongers benefitted. All of the labor of housewives/mothers was not producing an income tax stream. Now, those duties that women were told were menial (barefoot/pregnant) are careers in child care & big profitable nursing homes. Taking women out of the home was like setting off a nuclear bomb on the American family.
When I was a child, mothers cooked healthy homemade meals. The TV Dinner was a new thing and a rare treat(?) for most families. Getting women out of the home helped the packaged food industry have a monopoly on the family grocery bill.
Divorce is now rampant. Couples are overwhelmed as they try to keep up with a family and dual careers. Children are stressed by all of the effects of blowing up the family, so society decided, in the 1980’s, that putting them on drugs was a reasonable solution.
I truly believe that The Women’s Liberation movement was the first sledge hammer to our free society.