Working in fields as their job
The Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 was a United States law that authorized the President to stabilize prices, rents, wages, salaries, interest, rates, dividends, and similar transfers
The United States and the USSR were the lone remaining superpowers left after World War II.
As a result, they viewed proxy wars much like a chess player viewed moving a pawn. If they could get a strategic advantage in Algeria or El Salvador or Cuba, they would take it and lord it over the losing superpower.
The wife had to take on responsibilitys such as working in the farms and making money for the familys.