What jobs were for women in the 1950's?

Answer 1

The 1950s were a very conservative era. During the 1940s, when the men were off fighting the war, women found new and expanded opportunities in business, broadcasting, manufacturing, engineering, and other male-dominated occupations. But when the war ended, most women were told that they had to give up their jobs so the returning soldiers could have them. Women of the 1950s lived in a decade when only being a wife and a stay-at-home mother was considered suitable. Many women embraced this; but others did not: one poorly reported aspect of the era was that many women continued to work. But now, they could only work part-time, for greatly reduced wages, and they were back to stereotypically "female" jobs.

Most women of the 1950s were clerks, typists, or receptionists in offices. Some were nurse's aides or nurses. Some were teachers (although in many cities, the custom persisted that a female teacher was not allowed to marry, and if she did, she had to leave her job). There were some women on the radio, as experts on fashion or cooking or raising children. Some were on TV as actresses, but again, usually in very traditional roles as wives, mothers, or girlfriends hoping to find true love; there were also some women singers on TV, and a few women were comedians, like Lucille Ball; but the "dumb Dora" role was expected from women in comedy -- the woman comedian often had to act like a fool, and then she would be rescued from her calamities by her male significant other. Some Catholic women were nuns, and there were a few women lawyers or doctors, as well as some women who were authors. But for the most part, the culture demanded that women focus entirely on taking care of their family, and nothing else was supposed to matter.

Answer 2

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