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1950: In August 1950, amidst the success of Dianetics, Hubbard held a demonstration in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium where he presented a young woman called Sonya Bianca (a pseudonym) to a large audience including many reporters and photographers as "the world's first Clear." However, despite Hubbard's claim that she had "full and perfect ...
Siddur Nashim: A Sabbath Prayer Book for Women, a siddur written in 1976 by Naomi Janowitz and Margaret Wenig, was the first siddur to use female imagery and pronouns to refer to God. [140] The Anglican Church in Canada ordained six female priests. [141] Pamela McGee was the first female ordained to the Lutheran ministry in Canada. [12]
The women won, and Newsweek agreed to allow women to be reporters. [116] The day the claim was filed, Newsweek's cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by a woman who had been hired on a freelance basis since there were no female reporters at the magazine. [117]
The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities. Women entered into the mainstream middle-class experience, but took on a gendered role within society. Women typically took classes such as home economics, "Husband and Wife", "Motherhood" and "The Family as an Economic Unit".
1950s in women's sport (27 C) W. Women in war 1945–1999 (5 C, 132 P) Pages in category "1950s in women's history" This category contains only the following page.
Faith Spotted Eagle became the first Native American and one of the two first women to receive an electoral vote for president, which she received from a faithless elector. [ 318 ] General Lori Robinson became the first female officer to command a major Unified Combatant Command in the history of the US Armed Forces.
Susan Ware (born August 22, 1950) is an American independent scholar, writer and editor who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hopkinton, New Hampshire.The author of eight biographies, two edited collections, and co-editor of a textbook, Ware is a specialist on 20th-century women's political and cultural history, and the history of popular feminism.
However, the 1950s did witness a return to traditional gender roles and values. The number of women in the workforce decreased from 37% to 32% by 1950 due to women giving up their jobs for men returning from war. [30] The media also emphasized the domestic role of women rather than encouraging women to work as it had just a decade earlier. [28]