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