Abuse of older women after a lifetime of hard work

(North America)

I gave up my career after my children were born. Childcare was expensive and unreliable and daycare would take one child but not two.

My husband bragged that there was only room for one career in the household and that his was his.

So I went from a full time, well paying, satisfying job with a pension and benefits to cleaning peoples houses part time. It was filthy work and humiliating.

After a few years I was badly depressed but found a better paying crappy job still with no pension or benefits. It lasted 15 years then the company went out of business.

I was 62. My monthly pension is $500.00. My husband is pressuring me to keep working for the next decade because otherwise what will I live on?

He, on the other hand, has been lounging around for two years on a great pension while I 'should have found a better job' and maintains he's provided everything we have. Except now my original skills are outdated and nobody wants an old girl around. My husband has offered to buy me a personalized shopping cart to gather pop cans for a living.

So now I'm back to being a cleaning lady.