Women 50's

In life itself women are the household care takers, they bore the children, raise the children, cook, and clean, that is the role of the women. The 21’st century has made an exception to that rule, today the average woman has a career, a family, along with rights that were not equally given to them only 62 years ago. After World War II was over in 1945, American’s were overwelmed with the amount of soldiers returning home to their girlfriends, families, and jobs. Women were responsible for taking up on the work that men left behind when they went off to war, the return of thousands of men pushed women out of the work force and back into their homes. It almost seemed as if women had a choke hold on their lives and roles, Brett Harvey the author of Fitting In for Fifties Women was a young women living in the 1950’s she quoted, “1950’s women were second class citizens who’s roles were utterly restricted by business, the media, and by social pressures” –Brett Harvey. What the world didn’t understand was how hard it was for women to lose their independence all over again, unfortenoutly it back fired on America. Over time by the end of the late 50’s there was a rising birth rate, a stable divorce rate, and declining age of marriage. Today 4.95 per 1,000 people divorce here in America (University Libraries, Ohio University ), there are more single parent homes prodominantly by the mother, there is also a decline in home involvement from the mother working a full time job or two part-time jobs. Women have evolved over time, they’ve adapted to society, the choke hold is not as strong as it were