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Originally Posted by RealJames
That's right, but it was a desire, and it was a beginning for women to want to enter society in a way other than as a housewife (I'm paraphrasing what my gf is saying she noticed, btw), especially in the 90's.
She seems to be saying that int he 80's it sparked a desire to leave the house-wife world and enter the business world, which was otherwise unheard of. And then in the 90's it was starting to occur a lot more often, and then that now a days it's not as popular among the younger generation as it was a decade ago.
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Was it? Despite the fact that families were making crazy amounts of money, men were still working 60+ hours weeks. I was too young to be of working age in the 80s, but I did go to Japan a couple times, and my impression was that women were VERY happy taking advantage of their husbands' companies' good fortunes. It was (and still is) the secretaries that get to go on 10 day vacations. The men have a hard time getting more than a day off in a row. I have never heard anyone say they envied the salaryman of the 80s, or especially the 90s, after the bubble burst.