These Controversial Vintage Ads Show How Women Were Viewed Before the Millennium

Even today, people like to claim that keeping a house, looking after children, and generally being responsible for all cleaning and cooking is easier than having a full-time office job. Well, let’s be clear about one thing, at least with an office job, you can get up and leave by a certain time… The same isn’t true for the former.

It might be characteristic of the time, but the man in this illustration looks like he has gone insane. This advertisement might suggest that this man doesn’t take his wife’s work for granted, but the idea that a gadget can turn you into a mother is bizarre. All men are just as capable of doing a “woman’s work,” just like she is capable of doing theirs.