Gender Roles in the 1950s And Why They Are Wrong

Women's Roles

During this time women's roles were quite strict and they had to do all the cleaning, cooking, raising the children.

On top of these they were pushed to be healthy and workout to stay fit for their husbands.

The men on the other hand were supposed to support the family based only on their one income and back in this era wages were for keeping people off the streets.

The 1950's were all about the family life and living to be peaceful after the war ended.

Women were taught to socialize as well but by hanging out with their girl friends and talk to people when going to the grocery store.

Many of the women did not have any social anxiety or felt isolated because they made time to hang out with others and made sure to be out and about even if it were to get coffee.

Lots of them did not rely on TV's to keep their time occupied and kept themselves busy by doing chores, socializing, doing fun activities, taking vacations with their families, etc.

Women's Roles in 2021

Women's roles today are to keep a job or choose to be housewives but most of these housewives have jobs from home.

Since the internet has sparked the interest of new opportunities that those in the 1950's did not have. Many people have jobs at home where they can spend more time with their families.

We have versatile gender roles such as men can stay home and be housewives and the women can go out and work. Others like to have the women stay home and the men work.

Sometimes it is that both genders work for their income and rely on babysitters or family members to babysit their children. Which is not a bad thing but these gender roles have evolved.

Since the internet has been around and television people are not as strict with themselves such as 50s housewives or men who were working.

Televisions are not helping us either we are too focused on social media and putting so much pressure on ourselves on being the same as other people.

This also causes many people to have social anxiety without socialization and the internet does hold people back this way.

Many people feel isolated and adding a pandemic it is not helping us at all.

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