mostly looked after the kids they sired and did the laundry
False! It decreased
The women in the 1950s were viewed by society as a wife that stayed home, cleaned the house, washed the children, and cooked for the family. They were taught to be everything the man in the house wanted her to be. The women in the 1950s were taught "how to be a good wife" from a home economics textbook in the 1950s. Women were not supposed to hold jobs. They were also meant to hold a spot on their children's PTA board.
The women in the 1950s were viewed by society as a wife that stayed home, cleaned the house, washed the children, and cooked for the family. They were taught to be everything the man in the house wanted her to be. The women in the 1950s were taught "how to be a good wife" from a home economics textbook in the 1950s. Women were not supposed to hold jobs. They were also meant to hold a spot on their children's PTA board.
Common occupations for women in the 1950s included: * Secretarial work * Telephonists * Nursing * Teaching * Catering
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Sex
The way the women's roles and opportunities in the 1950s differ from women's roles today is in the 1950s women roles was mostly raising a family and housekeeping. Today, women play a part in public offices and workplace and person growth/community.
Depends on the job. We are not living in 1950s. Today pay rates are the same if the man and the women are doing the same job. Women can get paid higher than men if there job is more above.
Jobs
Not as many as they would gradually get beginning in the late 1960s, when the women's movement (also called Second Wave Feminism) began to take off. In the 1950s, women were still expected to stay at home and be housewives and mothers. Women could (and did) work part-time, but usually in low-paying office jobs or as cashiers, maids, etc. Of course, women did have the right to vote and the right to express themselves (there were some women authors, some women entertainers, and even a few women in non-traditional occupations like law); but over all, the culture of the 1950s was very traditional and expected most women to focus on the domestic sphere.
It created jobs for women
Women were oppressed.