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Ah, yes, the wonderful, mythical '50s. Great time to be a white Christian male. As a woman, though, my only choices for a career were a teacher or a nurse--and then only until I found a good man and stayed home to have babies and clean the house.
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Some women were able to break the mold, but it wasn't easy either. They didn't have the same level of options and opportunities as their male counterparts, or the same respect either.
You don't know us very well if you think that. Feminism groups I'm in are filled with *Gasp* stay at home moms, as well as working ones, and ones in school. We believe in choice and not set roles on what you should or should not do in life. The only ones that seem to have a love affair with women being limited in options come from areas of the Country that wish it was still 1947. Chiming in with old chestnuts like "When women were women and men were men."
Or little nuggets like this one from the OP: "Only modernized woMEN act like being a mother and wife isn't good enough."
Poor grandpa can't understand what's happened in the world today, where wimmin are treated like intelligent beings who might just have aspirations outside of that narrow definition. The horror!
Not really. Now a woman, unless she's pretty enough to find a super-rich husband, doesn't have the option to stay home and raise kids.
*rolls on the floor laughing* Thank you for the laugh there . I dare say you need to make some female friends if you think that. The type of women that stay home are varied in their looks as in their personalities.
Or little nuggets like this one from the OP: "Only modernized woMEN act like being a mother and wife isn't good enough."
Poor grandpa can't understand what's happened in the world today, where wimmin are treated like intelligent beings who might just have aspirations outside of that narrow definition. The horror!
That seems to be the belief set of people like that. That somehow modern influence tells women that staying home isn't good enough and that is the reason they don't do it anymore. As if the only thing that makes a woman happy is in the traditional gender role.
Not really. Now a woman, unless she's pretty enough to find a super-rich husband, doesn't have the option to stay home and raise kids. And how many people, male or female, truly have the "option" to have a satisfying career? Maybe 5%.
lots of women are stay at home moms by choice, probably 25% or more. some women also are stay at home moms because they are unable to find work or are going to school.
If I had been a woman in the '50s those would have been my choices. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Ah. Well my mother was a woman back then. She worked until she had kids. Stopped until we were all in school and then went back to work.
Office job.
Plenty of women worked, plenty of kids worked too.
My aunts both worked..one for AT&T and the other was a bank manager.
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. I dare say you need to make some female friends if you think that. The type of women that stay home are varied in their looks as in their personalities.