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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.
Men were earners and women were housekeepers.
In the 1950s, women were beginning to question their roles and realize the depths of their unrealized potential. Many had returned home after serving in the workforce during WWII. Betty Friedan's book, the Feminine Mystique, documented this and spurred discussion about it.
full time homemakers
How were the gender roles of white women reshaped and redefined during the Revolutionary eraHow were the gender roles of white women reshaped and redefined during the Revolutionary era
Women were always active in the military, even as early as the late 1700s. During the Revolutionary War, women served roles as cooks, nurses, and seamstresses. Women served during the Civil War and were recruited in World War I and II.
men's role was to be a provider and to be a good father a man that men look up to and and man that women want
Television shows in the 1950s frequently showed women as housewives. In reality, many women in the 1950s did not have the luxury of being housewives.
The author viewed gender roles in the 1950s as restrictive and oppressive, with women often expected to fulfill traditional roles as homemakers and caretakers, while men were expected to be the breadwinners and authority figures. The author likely critiqued these norms as limiting individual freedom and reinforcing inequality between the sexes.
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