Their timeline is slightly off, but they are sadly correct about that side effect. They criticize the progress of feminism in the early part of the century, then point out how it was reversed, in part, due to the prosperity during, and following WWII.

The "post-war" boom, and the associated mid-century cultural shift, actually began before the war was over. When soldiers began coming home, women were pushed out of the workforce, they got married, moved to the suburbs, had children, and took on the newly important role of "housewife."

For example, my grandmother came to the U.S. on a "war-bride" ship after my grandfather returned from deployment about halfway through the war. She said it was a horrifying period of her life, and can barely stand to think about it. She grew up on a farm in New Zealand totally run by women, wore pants and every day (she didn't even know corsets and girdles were a thing), rode her horse to work every day, had the freedom to leave the home and travel as she pleased, and could speak her mind openly.

The next thing she knew she was living in a Southern suburb, trapped in her home, with no access to a car, unable to access any form of birth control, unable to get a job, and expected to take care of this modern household with absolutely no necessary knowledge or skills. She said the worst part was rushing to put on a proper dress, and constricting undergarments before her husband would get home and catch her, secretly wearing the pants she put on when home alone .

Her family back home thought she was living in a dream world. All they knew was that Americas had money. She lived in a duplex, her husband worked in an office, he had a car, she fancy electric appliances, but, in her opinion, those things actually made her life a nightmare. (Apparently, thats the life the woman in this article long to go back to.)