Men didn't want there womens to work at the 1950s
there was free labor back in the nineteen fifties
work life in the 1950's were not equal because women got less than men
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.
Common occupations for women in the 1950s included: * Secretarial work * Telephonists * Nursing * Teaching * Catering
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.
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.
Women were oppressed.
Yes Women Did drive cars in the 1950's
Men were earners and women were housekeepers.
Move to the suburbs, buy new appliances, women were to work at home and have babies. The 50s was the decade of social conformity in america- people were materialistic.
Which work of at was inspired by the 1950s era of McCarthyism in the United States