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Focus Question: Is the image of the happy 1950s housewife accurate? Do Now: Look at these images that were printed in popular magazines in the 1950s. According.

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1 Focus Question: Is the image of the happy 1950s housewife accurate? Do Now: Look at these images that were printed in popular magazines in the 1950s. According to these images, what do you think life was like for suburban women in the 1950s? A 1950s ad for an electric ironA 1950s ad for a cleaning product

2 WW II employment for women Aircraft engine technician and senior supervisor, Naval Air Base, 1942 Women’s Auxiliary Corps laboratory technician conducts and experiment at Fort Jackson State Hospital, 1944

3 Post-WW II employment A secretary and her boss, an industrial designer, New York City, 1950

4 Social pressures Early marriage Childbearing Stay-at-home motherhood Nuclear family Image from 1950s ad for cake mix

5 The Baby Boom Year Births

6 Media portrayals of gender A photo of the Cleaver family from Leave It To Beaver, a popular TV show in the 1950s and 1960s

7 Suburbia, home of the “happy housewife” G.I. Bill Mass- produced, affordable homes Second Great Migration and “white flight” The planned community of Levittown, NY, around 1950

8 Household products marketed to women A 1950s ad for an electric iron A 1950s ad for a cleaning product

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