I go back to the "good old days", when the following, was law to our Government departments and generally a way of life in lots of professions, including nursing.
As a nurse, if I married I was expected to leave my employment.
Working for the State Health Dept, I had to resign my position when I married.
WHY? Because it was assumed my husband would financially support me and I didn't need to work anymore.
Those who had a bad marriage, stayed in it because everything was geared to keep her there......society, family precepts, financial constraints and employment rules.
Now of course a woman can leave, and recieve all sorts of help not available in those days, and of course she now has access to higher education and finacial assistance to gain professional degrees. Many in the old days had cleaning, or domestic help jobs or were part of a factory production line, poorly paid, laborious and boring and grim.
I take my hat off to those women, who sacrificed who they COULD have been, so their children could be saved from a miserable existence.
God bless