As women began to enter the paid workforce in higher numbers, the backlash was clear and persistent. Middle-class working women were deemed selfish for not staying home with their children, but stay-at-home moms who needed assistance were labeled as lazy tax burdens. Beginning in the 1970’s, the Women for Wages for Housework movement emerged, arguing that the unpaid labor of maintaining a home and raising children was work that deserved state compensation. The movement gained traction during the “Reagan Revolution,” as it showed how transformative justly compensating women for housework could be.