The Wages for Housework campaign demanded economic power the average housewife otherwise lacked. Photo: Bettye Lane/Schlesinger Library For a little while, American women had more rights than their foremothers. That’s no longer true after Dobbs , which accelerated a much older assault on legal abortion, and the law is only half the story. The day of the girlboss is over, and with her goes the valorization of individual choice. We once heard that our place was in the White House but that if we