1950 Gender Roles

We are persuaded through different types of media that the 1950s was a period of economic development, a period social change and awareness, and a period where women were fulfilled coming back to their pace in the home after the Second World War. Encompassing women with materialistic “necessities” to improve the home and the emphasis on family life and gender roles in the 1950s showed women their place in society. However, the expectation of society to fit in with gender roles has consequences. There was a desire to stay home and tend to the children and home and that a woman’s happiness depended on their children, home and spouse. Women in reality were unhappy and felt remorseful for encountering such emotions when they were told by society that their unhappiness depended on the happiness of their children and spouse. The lives of 1950’s middle-class, white, women in the U.S., considered another sort of comprehension of understanding of American women in the 1950s.
During WWII women filled numerous occupations in factories. Society realized that there would be hesitance for women to return home after the war, back to simply cooking and cleaning. This prompted attempting to make it look fun and intriguing, and new advertising techniques to diminish the bluntness. Women’s magazines of the
This depiction of women in the media teaches women to oppose working outside the home. There is a distinction between TV depictions of women and the genuine position of women in the present day making young girls to learn out dated gender roles. TV sustains the idea that women do not make a difference as much as men and they have inside a home because the vast majority of the women on TV appear to be inside a home. Women’s magazines propose the idea that a women’s goal is to be hitched and deal with children not to have a profession. Media representation of women leads young girls to trust that their role in society is