Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
Until the 1970s, a married woman woman going out to work was often frowned upon, at least in the UK. What you describe above may have been a factor but, from my memory, the stigma mainly related to the man being seen as unable to keep a wife and family by his own means. That and the notion of 'latch-key kids' - in other words, children being neglected and misbehaving because the mother is at work.
It was a very similar timeline here in the US. Like you, I'm old enough to remember those days. A woman in the 60s grew up expecting to get married at a young age - by her early 20s. Women could work, but they were mostly single. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which premiered in 1970, was considered groundbreaking because it featured a single woman in a career (television news producer). I think that was around the time things started changing. A show following a woman's career now wouldn't raise an eyebrow. Before that, Mary Tyler Moore played a housewife on The **** Van Dyke Show, and her husband gave her an allowance.
