Today Mom is working full time, too, yet the family can barely make ends meet. Technology is bad because it will put us out of work and it is bad because it will cause us to work ourselves to death. It was once thought that technology would automate cooking, laundry, dishwashing and even the teaching of young children. Women would have nothing to do but attend tea parties. But the consumption of tea has remained flat.
Women still work, as they always did, but today they specialize, just as men do.
Grandmother was a plumber, baker and nanny, and worked like a dog, for her family. Her granddaughter assembles microwave ovens, and gets paid in cash, by General Electric. She leaves it to Swanson's to assemble the meatloaf. She works less hard than gramma did, but she still works pretty hard. Technology does indeed transform the nature of work, sometimes beyond recognition.