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@Tekla_Too @Sneshka_Richter @wjm73675578 @PhilMitchell83 @SeagerMJ @LavAgarwal95 @bytecrack @UN_Women @BLS_gov @pewresearch @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact @LexyTopping @IPPR @Inc @Bloomberg @HarvardBiz @Forbes @JanaMatt @Entrepreneur My point in bringing up that men were the sole parent awarded custody was to point out there is no excuse for modern women to be unable to do what men could do then with even fewer modern conveniences, but if you want to move the goal post I can oblige. Let's talk 19th Century.

@Tekla_Too @Sneshka_Richter @wjm73675578 @PhilMitchell83 @SeagerMJ @LavAgarwal95 @bytecrack @UN_Women @BLS_gov @pewresearch @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact @LexyTopping @IPPR @Inc @Bloomberg @HarvardBiz @Forbes @JanaMatt @Entrepreneur "Women’s occupations during the second half of the 19th and early 20th century included work in textiles and clothing factories and workshops as well as in coal and tin mines, working in commerce, and on farms" (striking-women.org/module/women-a…).

@Tekla_Too @Sneshka_Richter @wjm73675578 @PhilMitchell83 @SeagerMJ @LavAgarwal95 @bytecrack @UN_Women @BLS_gov @pewresearch @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact @LexyTopping @IPPR @Inc @Bloomberg @HarvardBiz @Forbes @JanaMatt @Entrepreneur "In colonial America, women who earned their own living usually became seamstresses or kept boardinghouses. But some women worked in … jobs available mostly to men. There were women doctors, lawyers, preachers, teachers, writers, and singers" (wic.org/misc/history.h…).

@Tekla_Too @Sneshka_Richter @wjm73675578 @PhilMitchell83 @SeagerMJ @LavAgarwal95 @bytecrack @UN_Women @BLS_gov @pewresearch @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact @LexyTopping @IPPR @Inc @Bloomberg @HarvardBiz @Forbes @JanaMatt @Entrepreneur "[W]omen in the 18th and 19th centuries … were critical to their families’ economic well-being…, not in … rearing of children or taking care of household [chores] but by their active participation in growing and making the products that families bartered or sold for a living."

@Tekla_Too @Sneshka_Richter @wjm73675578 @PhilMitchell83 @SeagerMJ @LavAgarwal95 @bytecrack @UN_Women @BLS_gov @pewresearch @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact @LexyTopping @IPPR @Inc @Bloomberg @HarvardBiz @Forbes @JanaMatt @Entrepreneur That quote is from Washington Center for Equitable Growth (equitablegrowth.org/womens-history…) and the table is from The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function (scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/f…).

@Tekla_Too @Sneshka_Richter @wjm73675578 @PhilMitchell83 @SeagerMJ @LavAgarwal95 @bytecrack @UN_Women @BLS_gov @pewresearch @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact @LexyTopping @IPPR @Inc @Bloomberg @HarvardBiz @Forbes @JanaMatt @Entrepreneur Women worked in the 19th Century and in the 18th Century.

How did you not know that @Tekla_Too?

Who was ignorant about history again, @Tekla_Too?

@Tekla_Too @Sneshka_Richter @wjm73675578 @PhilMitchell83 @SeagerMJ @LavAgarwal95 @bytecrack @UN_Women @BLS_gov @pewresearch @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact @LexyTopping @IPPR @Inc @Bloomberg @HarvardBiz @Forbes @JanaMatt @Entrepreneur @threadreaderapp, please unroll.