Inventions/Appliances that helped women
This appliance helped women save time cleaning dishes
What is a "dishwasher"?
This was considered a woman's primary role in the 1950s
What is "housewife or homemaker"?
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Jobs that women took outside the home were known as what "color" collar jobs
What are "Pink" collar jobs?
Her book the Feminine Mystique helped lead to the Feminist movement in the 1960s because it showed that many women in the 1950s wanted more than being just the "perfect" housewife and mother.
Who is "Betty Friedan"?
This appliance helped women with this common household chore of cleaning clothes faster
What is "washing machine or washer/dryer"?
In schools women in the 1950s were encouraged to take these kinds of classes.
What is "Home Economics"? (cooking, sewing, etc)
If a woman worked outside of the home what jobs did women typically do
What is a “Secretary(clerical)/ teacher/nurse"?
Kitchen cabinets were made mostly from this material not wood
What is "Metal/Steel"?
According to 1950s "Perfect or Good Housewife" a woman was expected to do this to the house before her husband got home.
What is "Clean or Tidy Up"?
Some women started to attend this higher level of education which led to better jobs for them even though it was expected of them to find a husband there
What is "college"?
This was the leading brand of vacuums in the 1950s which is also the name of the president during the Great Depression
What is "Hoover"?
The Perfect Housewife was supposed to stay home and take care of the children and have what ready for her husband when he walked in from work
What is a "Hot meal"? (dinner or supper)
She refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama which led to the bus boycott
Who is "Rosa Parks"?
This type of meal made cooking faster for families because women could take it straight from the freezer and put it right in the oven (then eat while watching their favorite shows)
What is a "TV dinner"?
The name given to the ideal family in the 1950s who lived in the suburbs-husband who was the breadwinner and the wife who stayed home and took care of the house and kids
What is "nuclear family"?
This President in the 1950s had women working for him in his administration
Who is "Dwight D Eishenhower"?