ABSTRACT
The modern women's movement has put almost all its effort into creating and promoting women who live to work. It has romanticized the male status jobs and taken the position that systematic discrimination is the only reason that men rather than women hold these status jobs. The vast majority of women who entered the job market in the seventies and eighties did so because they needed the money, and the jobs were available. Women who work to live are for the most part marching to the beat of a different drum from women who live to work. The glorification of work promoted by the women's movement is viewed with suspicion. Most of their fathers did not commute to glamorous jobs in the city; they worked at dull jobs in factories or offices in order to support the family. Many feminists claim credit for the public acceptance of married women working outside the home.
