When you stereotype all conservatives and republicans as "the republican candidates that ran in the primary who want to take us back to the 1950's, when women stayed home", you might want to read a little bit about these women who were wife and mother of one of those candidates, and a candidate herself (see below on Santorum's wife, Bachmann herself, and Romney's mother).

These women are hardly women who "stayed home (barefoot, pregnant and baking pies for the king to come home to his castle)":

"Karen Santorum is one of twelve children. By profession, she is both a nurse and attorney. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Duquesne University, and worked for several years in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Her Juris Doctorate degree is from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where she was a Law Review member."
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"Michelle Bachmann was raised by her mother, Arlene Jean (née Johnson), who worked at the First National Bank in Anoka, Minnesota.....

She (Bachmann) graduated from Anoka High School in 1974 and, after graduation, spent one summer working on kibbutz Be'eri in Israel.

In 1978, she graduated from Winona State University with a B.A.

In 1979, Bachmann was a member of the first class of the O. W. Coburn School of Law......

In 1986 Bachmann received a J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University. She was a member of the final graduating class of the law school at ORU, and was part of a group of faculty, staff, and students who moved the ORU law school library to what is now Regent University.

In 1988, Bachmann received an LL.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary School of Law. From 1988 to 1993, she was an attorney working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)......

In 2000, Bachmann defeated 18-year incumbent Gary Laidig for the Republican nomination for State Senator for Minnesota District 56.

In the November 2000 general election, she defeated Ted Thompson of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and Lyno Sullivan of the Minnesota Independence Party, to win the seat.

Two years later, in November 2002, after redistricting due to the 2000 Census, Bachmann defeated another incumbent, State Senator Jane Krentz of the DFL, in the newly drawn State Senate District 52......"
Michele Bachmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lenore Romney, Mitt Romney's mother:

"Lenore LaFount Romney was the wife of American businessman and politician George W. Romney and was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970 from Michigan.......

Education and Acting Career:

......Lenore transferred to George Washington University, where she graduated with an A.B. degree in English literature in June 1929 after again spending only three years total in college. George returned from his missionary stint and soon followed her to Washington.

Acting Career
Encouraged by an aunt, LaFount moved to New York and enrolled in the American Laboratory Theatre to study acting, where she was taught Stanislavski's system under school co-founder Maria Ouspenskaya. She found the experience inspiring.

In student productions there, she starred in the Shakespearean roles of Ophelia and Portia and also appeared in roles from Ibsen and Chekhov plays. She received a performance award there in 1930.

Talent scouts attending the productions were impressed, and she received an offer from the National Broadcasting Corporation to perform in a series of Shakespeare radio programs and from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to go to Hollywood under an apprentice actress contract.

She decided on the latter, despite strenuous arguments against doing so from George, who had been visiting her on weekends. By then, he had a job with Alcoa, and arranged to be transferred to Los Angeles to be with her. In September 1930, the couple became engaged.

A 5-foot-6-inch slender woman with porcelain skin and naturally curly chesnut colored hair, LaFount earned bit parts in Hollywood. These included appearing as a fashionable young French woman in a Greta Garbo film and as an ingenue in the William Haines film A Tailor Made Man. She also appears in films that starred Jean Harlow and Ramon Navarro and was a stand-in for Lili Damita. Her trained voice made her valuable during this dawn of the talking pictures era, and she worked as a voice actor in animated cartoons.......

After a few months in Hollywood, she had the opportunity to sign a three-year contract with MGM that was worth $50,000 if all the options were picked up. However, she was dismayed by some of the seamier aspects of Hollywood and the studio's request that she pose for cheesecake photos....."

Lenore Romney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia