Agricultural societies children are needed to work the fields and therefore you make as many as you can. In industrial societies children can also work yes, but the economic balance tips deep into the negatives since the child barely gets paid anything and the mother can't work when the child is really young. As a result of this people have fewer kids. Also infant mortality was reduced significantly trough vaccines and improved hygiene etc. This of course significantly reduces the mothers workload at home. The workload is also reduced by things like Singers (1850) sewing machine which made making and repairing clothes way faster. Same with other machines.
So now we have a situation where women are doing exactly the same things as men because for the first time in human history they're not forced to get tied down with kids and taking care of the house while the men work. Now women are doing their own work and getting paid for it. Now especially middle class women who were better educated and worked as teachers, nursers or with telephones or telegraphs. Were starting to look around and wonder. Well wtf were doing the same shit but our rights are worse in terms of pay, marriage, education possibilites etc. Simply because we're women. And so the women started to campaign for equal rights and largely achieved them. A large contributing factor to this was women were independent members of society now with their own capital. Capital equals power and you simply can't have to groups of people doing the exact same things and the other having half the rights the others did.
To handwave the liberation of women which was largely enabled by the industrial revolution and which women fought for as a sort of corporate conspiracy to get more money seems a tad silly to me. You can make critiques of modern day feminism and how it absolutely sucks at appealing to majority groups like men and at times even promotes male hating. But in my opinion your analysis regarding the beginning of feminism seems a tad crude.
I also don't agree with the premise that the sort of trad wife lifestyle is a sort of default which women deviated from. The whole men work women take care of the house was only born during the beginning of the agricultural revolution. Before that people lived largely in communities. Women scavenged and men hunted. So I would argue the whole women don't work thig was actually a deviation from the baseline and now that women and men can both work and are equ
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