I think some things are easier now and some were easier then.
It was very difficult for women to leave abusive marriages even twenty years ago as there were no tax credits etc. I know this as that was me! So many women were stuck in these dreadful relationships with no-where to go.
Many women worked part time, or not at all, as their own tax depended on their husband's earnings so sometimes there was no point to them working if it took the couple over the threshold that led to up to 90% tax rates. I know people for whom this applied relatively recently.
My family was probably unusual in that both my parents worked, I was born late 50s. But we had no CH and no car for a while. Also no telephone and no TV.
My parents had it harder than me in some ways, as my father escaped from E Europe and his family lost everything, and my mother was from an enormous mining family in a tiny rented house, which affected both their mental healths.
We did not live anywhere near to our extended families who were and are spread across the globe, which was also unusual in those times.
We all suffered from what I now recognise as racist bullying from the people of the small town we lived in when I was growing up. My parents bought their own house when I was young, but they had to work abroad for many years in a third world country to manage this.
My father died relatively young which I think was due to his difficult early life, but my mother is very elderly and has a good pension.
I have my own house, but my parents have been able to help me with this, but only due to their hard work. But then I have worked for over thirty years so I think I have earned it. I have always worked, never had any time off for two children.
I have no pension to speak of, and my children face huge university debt and uncertain futures.
I think each generation has its own pluses and minuses. My father's early life was horrendous, and I feel grateful not to have to go through that. I would hope that my children would never see their home torched and their neighbours shot dead.
I had nothing material at all in my childhood. In many ways I think that was a good thing as I have no interest now in material wealth, except to earn enough to have more coming in than goes out!