Cultural Differences Between The 1950's And Today

Although, the culture of the 1950s was very different from today’s world, the events during that time helped make it possible to build our country into what it is today. Men and women both held different roles in raising their family. The phrase “separate but equal” played an important role for education. Did you know that women were asked to leave their home to serve for our country during the 1950’s?

The roles of the men and women were very different in the 1950’s. The workforce ratio was 5 men to 2 women. Men in many cases were the bread winners of the family. They would get up in the morning and head off to work for the day. When evening came, they would come home to their wife and children, sit down for dinner, watch the news on TV, or read the newspaper. Then they would go to bed to get up and do it all over again the next day.

I look at my grand-parents, who started their family in the mid-1950’s. My grand-daddy served in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. When he came back
During the 1950’s the military had issues with the Armed Services Integration Act of 1948, which President Harry S. Truman signed. Women could establish a permanent place in the military other than being a nurse, which was already in a permanent status. When the draft and recruitment came up short for the needed manpower, the services asked American Women to leave home and serve in the military. “Pink Collar” positions, which included personnel and administration services, were held for women. Part of their training included makeup and etiquette lessons. Pregnancy was a reason to give a woman an automatic discharge. By the end of the war in 1953 the number of women increased, but the percentage in armed forces declined. Now women are enlisting in military branches every day. Since the Vietnam War, women are enlisting in military every