Differences In Education In The 1950's
Society has come far in our efforts and strides with the advancements in the last sixty seven years with education, parenting and woman’s rights. The difference in the education system in the 1950’s is shocking. For example the classrooms held a lot of students, most children went to their first grade class not even knowing their alphabet. You were on your own if you didn’t understand a subject, it was up to you to get help from the teacher or a tutor. Parents didn’t help their sons or daughters as much as they do now and by doing this in 1950 we had the best education system in the world. Now in 2017 we rank 38th out of 71 countries. We keep classes between 20 to 35 students with one teacher because we have a broken education system, the
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Not all woman in this era wanted to have kids or wanted to stay home and do chores. When the war was going on woman helped with the war movement but after the war they were sent back home to do “womanly duties” from this arose the organization for woman. Betty Friedman and Pauli Murray tried to reconstruct society so woman could achieve economic, political and social equality. In 2017 woman across the United States are still fighting for equal access to pay, birth control and much more. In the fifties it started a trickle effect, the United States introduced an equal pay act of 1963, civil rights act of 1964 and Roe versus wade. In 2017 the government didn’t ask what woman wanted, they asked men. So the these fearless women poured across the united states and shows up to the woman’s march on Washington, woman are still fighting for choices that they have a right too. They did this because instead of going forward we are going back in history and undoing what these woman have fought for previously. The 1950s and 2017 are the same in many ways for the women’s suffrage movement; for example the husbands name is before the women’s on the retirement paper work, checking account, car and even the house. The difference between the two eras is we are more technology advanced now, we can reach a lot farther about these problems and troubles. The similarities are woman are still fighting for rights for equal pay because we still have the glass ceiling effect going
Not all woman in this era wanted to have kids or wanted to stay home and do chores. When the war was going on woman helped with the war movement but after the war they were sent back home to do “womanly duties” from this arose the organization for woman. Betty Friedman and Pauli Murray tried to reconstruct society so woman could achieve economic, political and social equality. In 2017 woman across the United States are still fighting for equal access to pay, birth control and much more. In the fifties it started a trickle effect, the United States introduced an equal pay act of 1963, civil rights act of 1964 and Roe versus wade. In 2017 the government didn’t ask what woman wanted, they asked men. So the these fearless women poured across the united states and shows up to the woman’s march on Washington, woman are still fighting for choices that they have a right too. They did this because instead of going forward we are going back in history and undoing what these woman have fought for previously. The 1950s and 2017 are the same in many ways for the women’s suffrage movement; for example the husbands name is before the women’s on the retirement paper work, checking account, car and even the house. The difference between the two eras is we are more technology advanced now, we can reach a lot farther about these problems and troubles. The similarities are woman are still fighting for rights for equal pay because we still have the glass ceiling effect going