George Bernard Shaw may have amused London audiences when he wrote in Man and Superman (1903) that "home is the girl's prison and the women's workhouse," but theremark was slightly anachronistic even then. Millions of women in Britain and the United States were already working outside the home in shops and factories and as servants in the homes of people who flocked to Shaw's plays.
In the face of today's realities, the acerbic British playwright would probably have kept his mouth shut....