In the 50’s the United States was trying to recover from World War II and the Cold War. Men were coming home from the wars and the economy was booming. Women were quitting their jobs and dropping out of school to raise their baby boomers. People were moving to the suburbs, buying cars and houses, and were more affluent than ever before. This led to the abundance of new inventions. Bette Graham released her invention Liquid Paper (originally named Mistake Out) in 1956. Even though women had been allowed to vote since 1929, there was very little extra freedom beyond that for women (“The Story of Women in the 1950s | History Today,” n.d.); Bette Nesmith Graham was a pioneer in more ways than one. Not only did she break the norms by running her own company while being a divorced single mother, she helped other women do the same by starting two foundations for women that needed help finding careers.,” n.d.).
