For women of color, all of these issues were compounded by racial discrimination. African American women were largely excluded from the idealized image of 1950s domesticity portrayed in popular ...

Housewives in the 1950s enjoyed much more active sex lives than women of today, other research has found, because their time was not divided between career, childcare and socialising as it is now.

The 1950s were a wild mix of domestic duties, social expectations, and carefully polished appearances—all wrapped up in a perfectly pressed apron. For women of the era, life was about striking a ...

The "M.R.S." Degree In the 1950s, women felt tremendous societal pressure to focus their aspirations on a wedding ring. The U.S. marriage rate was at an all-time high and couples were tying the ...

The "M.R.S." Degree In the 1950s, women felt tremendous societal pressure to focus their aspirations on a wedding ring. The U.S. marriage rate was at an all-time high and couples were tying the ...

This trend continued until the 1950s, an infamously regressive ... Pink is not just a color of resistance for women and feminists. Consider the pink triangle. During World War II, Nazis used ...