[...] the washing machine and other household appliances, which, by vastly reducing the amount of work needed for household chores, allowed women to enter the labour market and virtually abolished professons with domestic service [...]
i don't necessarily agree with the comparison (I think it's dumb to compare something like the Internet with household appliances--they're just different in nature) but it's a good point about the scale of demographic change in the labour market afforded by allowing women to enter the workforce