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Focus Question: Is the image of the happy 1950s housewife accurate? Do Now: Look at these images that were printed in popular magazines in the 1950s. According to these images, what do you think life was like for suburban women in the 1950s? A 1950s ad for an electric ironA 1950s ad for a cleaning product

WW II employment for women Aircraft engine technician and senior supervisor, Naval Air Base, 1942 Women’s Auxiliary Corps laboratory technician conducts and experiment at Fort Jackson State Hospital, 1944

Post-WW II employment A secretary and her boss, an industrial designer, New York City, 1950

Social pressures Early marriage Childbearing Stay-at-home motherhood Nuclear family Image from 1950s ad for cake mix

The Baby Boom Year Births

Media portrayals of gender A photo of the Cleaver family from Leave It To Beaver, a popular TV show in the 1950s and 1960s

Suburbia, home of the “happy housewife” G.I. Bill Mass- produced, affordable homes Second Great Migration and “white flight” The planned community of Levittown, NY, around 1950

Household products marketed to women A 1950s ad for an electric iron A 1950s ad for a cleaning product

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