A higher percentage of prime age adults are working outside the house than almost any time in recent US history. I don’t understand why an analysis of the state of US employment should exclude women, can you please expand on your reasoning?
The analysis has to compare apples to apples. Raising families and homemaking is also work. Women going to work outside the home reflects a change in the type of work, not the employment level. But your analysis artificially treats them as having been out of work before and now employed.