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Why would a Marxist be happy about women entering the workforce?

As far as I am aware the central goal in Marxist thought is to return humankind to our species-being, which we are currently alienated from by, amongst other things, capitalism and the division of labour. A housewife seems fairly well protected from these things, since she spends her days doing things which directly pertain to her own existence and those she cares about, while her husband may be working some totally alienating office job keeping him quite far from his species-being, at least from 9am to 5pm. In fact, traditionally female roles, which are typically in some regard motherly, all seem to be more 'natural' occupations than most. With the 'emancipation of women', and their entry into the workforce, 50% of the population seem to have lost significant protection from alienation. It seems to me that this should be regarded, within a Marxist framework, as calamitous. Presumably the responses are that they are free from other forms of alienation such as gender roles, but a) this is probably more contentious, and b) I still don't see how their condition is improved, i.e. how they are less alienated from species-being.
gpt
To say that the goal of marxism is to return humankind to our species-being is misleading, at best. One way to do that could be to return to feudalism, in which man is *not* alienated from their labor and other workers, and the division of labor does not exist.

Strict marxism could go the route that emphasizes that working in production leads to class consciousness. Such that over time, women, not only men, will realize that the problems she face with her boss/ her employer and so on are not because she is lazt, or that the boss is evil, but that the whole system is built to harvest surplus-labor out of her and her co-workers, and thus when the revolution comes the whole population, rather than the sole working half will come to its aid.