SOCL 4331 Study Guide - Gender Role, Resocialization, Differential Association
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Serious constraints on what women could do. No education whatsoever for women except finishing school for upper class women. Women were supposed to take care of the house. Upper class was women who did charity, no house work, dainty. 20% of women in the labor force: single mothers, minorities, poor women, most went out of necessity. They were needed to make stuff for the war. Propaganda an attempt to persuade: rosie the riveter we can do it! , made it every woman"s duty to support the war promised them excellent childcare and it was an exercise in patriotism. Women role was to stay home and care for house and children. Esquire magazine: directed toward working women, working women who are also married are a menace and have to be stopped. Another propaganda campaign to get women back in the home. Child care: children will be well taken care of.