Well, hello there listeners and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 360 of sustainable minimalists. What on earth do we do on this show?

Well, this is a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's show

we're talking cooking and specifically cooking from scratch but in a broader

sense we're giving homemaking back some of its much deserved glory.

Before we do any of that, we need to back up, we need to back way up.

Let's talk about the women's liberation movement for a hot minute.

From the late 1800s to about 1920, the women who worked were primarily poor, uneducated, and single.

From the 1930s to the 1970s, married women started entering the workforce in significant numbers. By 1970, 50% of single women and 40% of married women were working.

Now maybe you're wondering why, what well there are many reasons one the big one is the rise of birth control

birth control meant that women for the first time ever had some sort of say over when they started a family and how big or how small that

family would be. Another reason is increased education and a third reason of course is the availability of part-time employment.

So women could theoretically have it all by working a bit and homemaking a bit.

From 1970 on, there's been a real shift in the way women tend to view work.

Women from 1970 on started prioritizing their education, getting degrees, getting advanced degrees.

They started looking at work not as a temporary or part-time thing, but they started thinking about work in terms of careers over decades, right?

We're not going to just blip in and blip out, we're going to stay for the duration of our career.

So we're liberated. for the duration of our career.

So we're liberated, or are we? Are we really liberated?

Many homes in 2023 America,

we don't just enjoy, but our lifestyles demand to incomes. And unfortunately, as of 2012,

the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, also known as the OECD, by the way.

They ranked the United States 33rd out of 36 countries with regard to how well or not so well

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