History mini-assessment on conformity and gender roles in 1950s
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- Gender Roles in the 1950s
- Oh! Why are you working? You should be in the kitchen cooking for your husband!
- What are you doing here?
- Why? During WW2 we had to work.
- Working. It pays really well.
- Returning GI like your husband are taking jobs back again! As women, now, because of conformity, we have to stay at home. Haven't you seen all the ads?
- Slides 20 and below, Note Guide
- Especially in our suburbia, our planned neighborhoods, news travels fast! That's why you don't see any women working here.
- Slide 17, Note Guide
- Note Guide
- Do you remember Levittown?
- That was one of the first suburban towns created. Our town is also suburban
- What is suburbia?
- Yes!
- So my role as a woman is to cook and clean and take care of my kids?
- I do see your point. I guess in some ways we have room to improve. Me and my husband are really seeing the effects of racism. We are so much poorer than most white/Caucasian families. They are all so affluent!
- That's so cruel! We should be given the freedom to work! We have lives outside of our homes!
- Slide 39
- Yes! Exactly!
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