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Which group of women in the workforce increased more?

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Which group of women in the workforce increased more?

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The group of women that increased the most were the married women. IT increased dramatically, it went from 1.4 million to 6.6 million it increased because.

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Why did the number of women in the labor force increase in the 1950's?

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Why did the number of women in the labor force increase in the 1950's?

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The number of women increase because when their children's enrolled in school at the age of 5 they felt lonely and many enter the labor force.

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What was the effect on female college students?

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What was the effect on female college students?

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Many young females decided to forego attending to college to start a family. By late 1950's nearly two thirds of young women in college dropped out before graduation.

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Couples often married in their late teens, early twenties, and immediately started having families. The birth rate went up 20 percent between 1950 and 1960.

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What message did the media send to women in the 1950's?

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What message did the media send to women in the 1950's?

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"Experts" wrote in magazines that the most significant contribution they could make to society was to get married and raise a family. The supposedly successful and happy women knew how to bake and cook delicious meals.

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What were women encouraged to do rather than work outside the home ?

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What were women encouraged to do rather than work outside the home ?

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Women were encouraged to become housewife's rather than work. Television programs, magazine articles, and movies assured women that if they chose any course other than being suburban housewives, they would end up terribly unhappy.

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Why were women encouraged to leave or forced from their jobs at the end of the war ?

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Why were women encouraged to leave or forced from their jobs at the end of the war ?

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Women were encouraged to leave their jobs after the men came back from war. Some commentators argued that women could not compete with men in the business world.

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Women entered the workforce during World War 2. Many took jobs. Some woman were welders, factory workers, carpenters, and construction workers.