Women In The 1960's

Women of the 1950’s through the 1960’s are ridden with male oppression and self-esteem issues. The book Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates and an episode of Mad Men titled The Shoot have a lot in common. The differences and similarities between the leading women in both of these stories from the 1950’s show that times are different today. The women of the 1950’s had a dream for the future and their dream has finally become a reality for American women. From Mad Men, Betty Draper’s dream of becoming a model and in Revolutionary Road, April Wheeler’s dream of traveling the world are actual realities for women today. Their dreams show similarities, differences and the “American Dream” that every woman has.

the house becoming the homemaker once the war was over. The 1950s has also been

Underlying the feminism movement of the 1960s and 1970s was the “white racist ideology.” The women’s movement of the 1960s was in fact the white women’s movement. It was an opportunity for white feminists to raise their voices, but they only spoke about the plight of the white woman and excluded themselves from the collective group of women across all races and social standings. White women assumed that their experience was the experience of all women. When black women proclaimed that the movement was focused on the oppression of white women, the white feminists asserted “common oppression” and retorted with “oppression cannot be measured.” Ironically, feminists in the 1960s compared their oppression to the oppression of African Americans as

‘We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.’ This quote is said by Beyoncé, a famous female singer who embraces the women she is. Even though gender inequality is present for women in both societies, there are many differences between the expectations of females in the 1930’s to females today.

For many centuries, women and men were not treated equally. After the Civil War, women had many essential successes that helped them earn respect. Throughout all of history women have not been seen as true equals to men. Women did not realize the extent of the matter at hand until after the Civil War.

Since the birth of the United States of America, African Americans have struggled for society to hear them and treat them as equals. In the 1800s, they fought for equality through the Civil War. Another big time period where African American strove for equality was The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, which effectively changed crucial aspects of the nation and made great strides in the rights of African Americans in the United States.

A lot was going on in the world in the 1950’s. World War II had just ended, the Civil Rights Movement was just getting started, the “Baby Boom” was under way, and women in sports play a very uneven role. In the 1950’s men really preferred the masculine role, they wanted to be the man of the house and with that, the best athlete. It was happening all around the world in the 1950’s, men wanted to show the ladies who really was in charge, and as a result woman in sports were not fairly treated. How are women treated in regard to sports and what stereotypes are shown and what role do these women play in the 1950’s? During the 1950’s, magazines and newspapers degraded women athletes by not highlighting their talents necessarily, but more of

The number of women returning to higher education has greatly risen since the 1970’s. They have returned for a number of reasons. Some being, employment opportunities, retirement or becoming a widow and dealing with grown children who’ve left the home. Typically these women returning are older; have more responsibility than the traditional-aged student; are usually married, and are mothers (Teachman & Paasch, 1989)

In the 1960’s, approximately 27 percent of the population in the City of Jacksonville were black Americans. Jacksonville was known to be the largest concentration of blacks in the south. Despite the high population, Mayor Haydon Burns endorsed segregation in addition to denying requests for bi-racial council that would have handled racial issues in the city.

Enlightenment brought figures such as Jeremy Bentham, Marquis de Condorcet, and Olympe de Gouges who advocated for women's rights.

Women’s roles in society have become more equal to men’s and have overwhelmingly changed since the 1930s. There have always been influential women throughout history, however, their influential techniques have changed greatly. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, women’s expectations, roles and opportunities, and their treatment can be compared to women today.

The 1950’s is a very different time from todays, but are the fashion statements the same? Does the fashion live up to the 20th century? Looking at the fashion statements made from the men, children and the women from the 1950’s and comparing them to modern day wear, proving that we may have differed but you can definitely still see that we have fashion pieces from the 50’s embedded into modern day clothing. Men during the 1950’s were the ‘breadwinners’ at the time so they would wear a button up shirt under their grey suit occasionally with a tie. Nowadays men wear suits only for when they are heading to formal events or if the job they work requires it.

Overall, the sources do not support the statement that women’s lives had improved ‘enormously’ by the end of the 1950s.

Change has always been a major key in life, whether it has been good or bad, for the worst or better of people, not everyone agrees with changing something when they are comfortable or when it seems like it is working in their favor. In Structural functionalism it is said that change it out of the question. Most people that are comfortable believe in maintaining the status quo. Especially when it comes to politics or religion. In the 1960s change was evolving and it angered people to the point where they were lashing out.

In the 1920’s a new modern culture had developed with dramatic changes socially, economically, and politically. It was a transitioned to modern, from a conservative way of living during the after war time. It was a transformation that completely transformed America. In the 1920’s a change like this needed to happen to increase the economy, entertainment and way of living.