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Women in the 1950s WWII employment for women Womens Auxiliary Corps laboratory Aircraft engine technician and senior technician conducts an experiment, Fort supervisor, Naval Air Base, 1942 Jackson State Hospital, 1944 Post-WWII employment

Women in the 1950s
WWII employment for women Women’s Auxiliary Corps laboratory Aircraft engine technician and senior technician conducts an experiment, Fort supervisor, Naval Air Base, 1942 Jackson State Hospital, 1944
Post-WWII employment A secretary and her boss, an industrial designer, New York City, 1950
Social pressures • Early marriage • Childbearing • Stay-at-home motherhood • Nuclear family Kennedy wedding, Jacqueline throwing the bouquet, 1953
The Baby Boom Births Year
Media portrayals of gender A photo of the Cleaver family from Leave it to Beaver , a popular TV show in the 1950s-60s
Suburbia, home of the “happy housewife” • G.I. Bill • Mass-produced, affordable homes • Great Migration and “white flight” Levittown track homes of the 1950s
Household products marketed to women A 1950s ad for a cleaning product A 1950s ad for an electric iron
Central Historical Question Is the image of the happy 1950s housewife accurate?

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