Im 63 i was born in 1947, my father pushed me in my pram every sunday morning, so my mum could prepare lunch and have a bit of peace. When in 1960 my mother gave birth to twins, he changed nappies, washed clothes and did housework and always shared with the cooking. My mother was a housewife and only returned to work when all her children were in school, and old enough to look after themselves
My own husband pushed my childrens prams in 68 nd 71, he too was a good cook, and contributed his fair share to the housework as well, I was a housewife too, and i would often take the children out to visit friends for the day, and come home and find he had hoovered right through and washed the kitchen floor.
I dont think it has anything to do with the times, its more to do with the environment some people grew up in. We all live by example, and i blame the women who have allowed their husbands to continue with an antiquated attitude to women, and rearing their male offspring to believe that women are only there to look after them.
After WW II many women were not prepared to go back to being the slave of the household and there husbands, and many men appreciated that women were equally as capable, (sometimes more so) and certainly equal in status to men. The days of women pandering to the whims of their husbands, has long gone, but there will still be some who are still living in the age of the dinosaur, and thats the fault of their mothers, because they have allowed their sons to see their own subservient behaviour towards their own husbands and have allowed their own sons to believe this is how things should be.