Family Fallout Shelter

During the cold war there was a great fear of getting into a full on war with Russia. Even though it never escalated to that point men and women were expected to have certain roles. We could see some of the stereotypes and roles that the men were expected to have in the following primary sources.
In the poster “The Family Fallout Shelter” from This poster we could see a women holding a booklet of how to build a shelter while there is a men holding bricks and a seems to be making the shelter. From these picture we could assume that they believed that men were the ones that were supposed to do all of the hard work. We could assume that they believed that women were too week and they could not do hard labor like making a fallout shelter. We also see how the women was holding the manual of how to do it which could mean that men were primarily guided by the women. These could be moral guidance or actual guidance of how to do stuff () we could also assume that they expected the men to protect the family to take care of the family that might be why he is building the shelter. In the poster we see only one men so we could assume
that the normal was for men to do thinks themselves instead of herring people to build the shelter we see the men making it by himself with little assistance from what we could assume is his wife. men were expected to be heterosexual and if not they were not wanted to work in any government position that deals with classify information. They argued that the communist party could blackmail and store any non-heterosexual individual who was consider to be queer. At the time it was consider to be strange for a mem to have sexual relations with another man (638). They were called perverts and they were seemed as not even able to hold any positions of power because of their sexuality (639). We could compare this with the poster and how it is depicting a man to be strong. They mention how Gay people had little emotional stability a not a great sense of morality. we could assume that the opposite holds for heterosexual men and that also it was expected of them to be that way.
Another example of the gender stereotypes of the roles of a man is went Mrs.
Oran is interview because they had believed that she had an association with the communist party there is part where they mention of her occupation. She responds that she is a housewife and her husband works in a drugstore (642). These id proof that men were expected to be the bread winners of the family that was a big stereotype. In these source we could see that there are many members of congress asking Mrs. Oran to contribute with the government and to tell them everything that she knows about the communist party so they could stop the conspiracies (643). These shows that they expected the women to tell them everything wrong because they might have been believed to be the moral support of the family and also they expect both men and women to help their
government.
In conclusion, the “normal” for men in these sources was to be heterosexual and have a wife. It was also normal to be the Bead winner of the family and for the wife to sat at home and take care of the kids. They were also supposed to protect the family and they were supposed to know how to build stuff. You could also argue that they were emotionally stable and were supposed to have a good sense of morality. They were also supposed to do them themselves not hirering other people because that was a men job. They were also expected to help the government and also they had the ability to run for any power position within the government.