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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 ...
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.
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 ...
An amateur photographer’s images from the 1950s have been generating fresh interest more than a decade after they were almost lost forever. Ray Stokes took his Voigtlander camera with him when ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Viola Klein's and Alva Myrdal's Women's Two Roles: Home and Work is published. David Lockwood's Some Remarks on "The Social System" is published. Charles Wright Mills's The Power Elite is published. Pitirim Sorokin's Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences is published. Otto Stammer's Functions in the Party Unit is published.
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...
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 ...