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Women\u2019s lives dramatically changed in the 1950s with men coming back from wars and taking their jobs back. Many women wanted to keep their jobs but with the sudden abundance of men there was no need for women anymore. Because of this many women started staying home and the suburban house wife was born (\u201c1950\u2019s – Women\u2019s roles,\u201d n.d.). Women stayed home and became mothers of the baby boomers. The women stayed home and lived to make their husbands happy, to do housework, and to take care of the kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the girls who started attending college in the 1950s ended up dropping out of college in order to marry the men coming back from the wars (\u201c1950\u2019s – Women\u2019s roles,\u201d n.d.). On average, women were getting married younger than ever before (\u201c1950\u2019s – Women\u2019s roles,\u201d n.d.). The women that didn\u2019t drop out of college took classes that would help them with their lives as housewives such as interior decorating and family finances (\u201cAmerican Experience | The Pill | People & Events,\u201d n.d.). A common joke of the time was that women were only going to college to get a M.R.S. Degree meaning they went to school to get husbands or to be better wives (\u201cAmerican Experience | The Pill | People & Events,\u201d n.d.). Not only was dropping out and starting a family encouraged, there were negative consequences for those that didn\u2019t conform. Any woman that defied the norms and wasn\u2019t married by her early twenties was called an \u201cold maid\u201d meaning she would probably never be married (\u201cAmerican Experience | The Pill | People & Events,\u201d n.d.). Those that financially did not need jobs but just wanted them were considered selfish for putting their desires first before their children\u2019s needs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women\u2019s lives dramatically changed in the 1950s with men coming back from wars and taking their jobs back. Many women wanted to keep their jobs but with the sudden abundance of men there was no need for women anymore. Because of this many women started staying home and the suburban house wife was born (\u201c1950\u2019s … Continue reading 2. Trends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7756,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/56"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/brittanytse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}