GENDER ROLES
MOVING TO THE SUBURBS
AN IDYLLIC DECADE
100
Women were no longer welcomed in ?
the workplace
100
In the 1950's suburbs mushroomed, attracting nearly how many of those who had lived in cities?
two-thirds
100
How many items did the super market average in the 1950's?
3,750
200
What was the generation called of people born between 1946 and 1964, when birth rates surged?
baby boomers
200
We knew little about the outside world of poverty, culture, ethnic variety, and what?
crime
200
Was domestic violence and child abuse accepted?
It was invisible.
300
Movies and TV shows created and reinforced two stereotypical portrayals of women?
innocent virgins and sexy bombshells
300
Massive highway construction programs and automobile ownership enabled people to do what from the suburbs to the city?
commute
300
Young people were forced into what kind of marriage?
Shotgun marriages because of premarital pregnancy
400
By the mid 1950's what percent of female undergraduates dropped out of college to marry ?
60 percent
400
There was a huge demand for
housing
400
Open homosexuality was?
Taboo, because heterosexuality was considered normal.
500
How did the housewives escape from their unhappy lives?
Alcohol or drugs
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