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Maybe the problem
isn't that work wasn't "redefined" and job expectations lowered. That's too radical and the profit motive is the profit motive (and economics is economics - you can't get paid for not adding value). Maybe the "problem" is that when women entered the workforce instead of sticking to teaching and nursing, we doubled the supply of labor for jobs that had traditionally been men's province. So, the buyers - employers - could afford to be choosy while we (men and women) sold our labor for ever lower prices per unit because we had to compete with more and more other people able to do the same job. As long as anyone is will to work like a dog (and someone always will be in a capitalist society), employers can hold out for that.