SOSC 1140 Study Guide - Life Insurance, The Affluent Society, Penis Envy
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Civil rights may have lead to antiwar, to women liberation to gay rights. Many things that were once looked down upon have become a norm in our society. I put it down as an axiom that no woman with a husband and small children can hold a full-time job and and be a good homemaker at one and the same time. (pg. 79: majority of the women agreed with these claims and were against married women working. Believed women who had jobs were nervous, unloving, inferior mates, and insufficient housekeepers. 1940-1950 post world war ii was when the baby boom occurred and birthrate increased. They could grow their food, build shelter, make clothes, work on the farm and pass on farming job from generation to generation and earn money. If women worked, it threatened the male breadwinner role. Undermined the husbands dominant role in family and society, as well as decreased male wages by increasing supply of workers.
