Men's Group

For nearly all of human history everybody stayed home. Whether it was a farm, store or craft Mom and Dad were both home all the time since the economic production of the family depended on it. Men and women were equally as economically productive and indeed good luck really separating out who might be more important. In those days, the women made basically everything the family used except the house they lived in and the shoes they wore.

Then with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, someone had to start leaving home daily to go out and earn a wage. In the factories the men began producing for a wage much of what the women used to make at home. This trend accelerated for the simple fact that with Dad out of the house Mom controlled most of household spending and immediately began spending it on things that made her life easier and the men began producing more and more of these things in the factories. Even in 1942 women were controlling 80% of household spending.

By the 1960's women's roles had truncated down to mostly keeping the house and taking care of the kids - a mere fraction of what her work duties used to be, while the man then had to assume 100% of the family's economic burden up from 50% before that.

So following from all that, the women of the 20th and 21st centuries have been THE first people in all of human history allowed as an enormous group to be economically non-productive. Basically, their roles became similar to the roles of privileged women of the aristocratic class for all of prior human history.

So yes being economically non-productive while someone else does that for you is privilege.