Since women became a good chunk of the working population, that's more money being raised in taxation, therefore more money is passing through more hands, then consumer confidence increases and prices rise. This in turn boosts GDP which then fuels confidence in the economy. Everything is great! Brilliant, even! But is it?
There are now two incomes (assuming both parents work), prices have risen, but that's fine because we now have dual income households, it's all perfectly well affordable. Confidence grows and because of the propensity for governments to borrow, inflation then also takes hold, so prices rise even further, more specifically, your money is no longer worth the value the BoE maintains the illusion of. They print the money, it's also their job to tell you a fiver is still worth a fiver. So then being able to service (let alone pay off) a mortgage on a single income before retirement is now impossible. What you end up with is a smaller house, probably even rented accommodation, a decent but expensive car (often leased) and fewer foreign holidays. Children barely factor in anymore once you add up the cost of the aforementioned. Remember, rampant inflation + taxation eats up dual income in no time.
I've always thought it a bit strange that a woman can work 5 days a week and 2 of those days will be enough to pay for 2 days of childcare (is it? I've heard it costs a fortune in some areas), then that's 3 days where she can't afford childcare. So big daddy government steps in to force more taxation to pay for wraparound care, means tested of course. Can't have people abusing taxpayer money, can we? Government does it all the time, but you're not allowed.
Anyway, my point is women were better off working in hospitals, restaurants and generally any job that doesn't involve a high power career being subservient to a big and powerful, wealthy man (or woman, there are plenty of female bosses out there) who can and most certainly will get rid of you for someone younger, fitter and with more energy and vitality than you. But none of that is affordable now, so women have no choice but to go to work. Unless their husband has a juicy and bullet proof income, they're more or less sentenced to a full time job hoping to be able to retire. Yes, 'sentenced', because after years of getting up at the arsecrack of dawn, barely eating breakfast, getting your kids to school, dealing with the congestion on the roads, and merely surviving, it does really feel like a punishment. It's not meant to be like this, but this is how things are now.
The most heartbreaking aspect of all of this in my humble opinion is abortion. People can't afford to raise children, their contraception fails and a pregnancy occurs. A new life is conceived! Praise God! But that little life is going to be ended before they're born because their parents can't afford to raise them. About a third of Gen Z don't exist because of elective abortion. 1/3 of a generation aborted.
We're killing our own families off before they're born because we can't afford to raise them. We can't go on like this. Oh but yes we can, it's called immigration. Right, so you're admitting population replacement. No, you ignorant racist. We need more people. We can't afford to have babies and don't like our bodies going through hell, so we import people who can.
Sigh. I need to go and have a pick-me-up....