How Do Women Work In The 1960s

In the 1960s women were seen as less in society and even in there own homes .Women where seen to work at home ,marry in the early 20s, and start a family . In this time period women had no legal right to any money or property from there husbands except ''proper support.'' There husbands although would control there wives property and there earnings .And all this caused the women to rise up and try and get there rights .The Women's Liberation Movement was a time when women wanted the right to vote and to be treated and have equal rights .
The majority of women who worked in the 1960s had largely limited jobs such as a teacher , sectary ,nurse where one of the jobs a women could work at . Women where not welcome in medical programs , one medical school dean said "Hell yes, we have a quota...We do keep women out, when we can. We don't want them here — and they don't want them elsewhere, either, whether or not they'll admit it." In the 1960s there was a 6 percent of women doctors , and a 3 percent of layers where women , and less than 1 percent of women where engineer. Women that worked where paid less than working man .
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