this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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That podcast I mentioned earlier actually said that's why kids in NZ generally start school at 5. It used to be 6, and in the war (first world war, maybe?) they changed it to 5 so more women to work while the men were at war. So the first year of school was literally to babysit.
That's interesting. Social changes so often happen for slightly weird reasons. Giving women the vote was partly about who they would likely vote for.