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Old 11-09-2010, 11:41 AM   #273
peter12
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
All I was really getting at was that traditional male/female roles have evolved drastically since the beginning of the 1900s, and that evolution accelerated after about 1965. Women were pretty much expected to defer to their husbands on most matters before then, which probably explains why there were less instances of divorce and marital strife (at least from the man's POV).
And I don't think that's true. It's a myth of the post-60s world that women were imprisoned in a world dominated by men.
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