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The table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...
During the early years of settlement in the late 19th century, farm women played an integral role in assuring family survival by working outdoors. After a generation or so, women increasingly left the fields, thus redefining their roles within the family. New conveniences such as sewing and washing machines encouraged women to turn to domestic ...
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]
1950s in women's sport (27 C) W. Women in war 1945–1999 (5 C, 131 P) Pages in category "1950s in women's history" This category contains only the following page.
African American women involved played roles in both leadership and supporting roles during the movement. Women including Rosa Parks, who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Diane Nash, the main organizer of the Nashville sit-ins, and Kathleen Cleaver, the first woman on the committee of the Black Panther Party.
Gender, and particularly the role of women is widely recognized as vitally important to international development issues. [205] This often means a focus on gender-equality, ensuring participation, but includes an understanding of the different roles and expectation of the genders within the community. [206]
United States Information Service poster distributed in Asia depicting Juan dela Cruz ready to defend the Philippines under the threat of communism, 1951.. In the cultural history of the United States during the Cold War, domestic containment was the notion that women's main role is in the home, while men work to provide for the family in order to keep a stable home environment and uphold ...
The enforcement of gender roles within comics continued well past the 1950s. The roles of women in comics during the 1960s and 70s shifted to become more diverse and began to extend past traditional roles as a result of the civil rights movement, second wave feminism, and the sexual revolution, when more women in society were taking on ...