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Housewives were expected to dutifully spend their time tending their home, rarely giving them opportunities to go out and face the reality of the world.

- never went out on their own time
- always doing things for their family

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Housewives were so busy with their lives as mothers and wives that they did not know how to be themselves.

- always concerned with their children and husband
-no other purpose than to care for family

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Housewives began to equalize housework in the late 1960s, but most husbands did not want to do monotonous housework

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Wife and daughter changed into nice clothes for dinner to look relaxed for the men

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Wife and daughter did work preparing dinner while the men were able to relax

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“It is easy to see the concrete details that trap the suburban housewife, the continual demands on her time. But the chains that bind her in her trap are chains in her own mind and spirit. They are chains made up of mistaken ideas and misinterpreted facts, of incomplete truths and unreal choices. They are not easily seen and not easily shaken off.” 

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“It is easy to see the concrete details that trap the suburban housewife, the continual demands on her time. But the chains that bind her in her trap are chains in her own mind and spirit. They are chains made up of mistaken ideas and misinterpreted facts, of incomplete truths and unreal choices. They are not easily seen and not easily shaken off.” 

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Women had many opportunities for short-term, simple jobs. Although there were some options for careers, women needed to be qualified for the position and often left their home for long periods of time.

- Cadet Nurse poster
- there were career options, but women needed specific qualifications

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- housewives were not given good career opportunities
- environment shaped women to marry early with little education
- women themselves were taught to not want careers

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Society shaped women to fear solitude, so women began to get engaged in their late teens.

- Betty Friedan
- fear of being alone; wanted to marry and move to suburbs like every other woman

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Housewives always had to present themselves in their best, feminine way to please their families.

- housewives worked all day
- mother and daughter prepare dinner while men can relax

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Women were not given the opportunity to apply for long-term careers, essentially forcing them to remain housewives.

- job offerings in newspapers were not long term jobs like careers
- housework openings, secretaries, waitresses
- women were not expected to want careers

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- FEMININITY
- housewife statistics
- women would work before marriage to find husbands
- it was not financially possible for all wives to be housewives

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American society pushed women to marry early in the mid 20th century, causing them to have a short education, no career and a life stuck at home.

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Giving women a career

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“Women were not to be opinionated or assertive.”

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“Women were not to be opinionated or assertive.”

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Sonia Pressman Fuentes in Sex Maniac

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Women of the 1960s

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“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.”

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“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.”

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Housewives had no personal time. They always tended the house and their families.

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“If the children are napping and I have one hour to myself I just walk through the house waiting for them to wake up.”

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“If the children are napping and I have one hour to myself I just walk through the house waiting for them to wake up.”

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Housewives had no other purpose than to be there for her husband and children.

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“They had no thought for the unfeminine problems of the world outside the home; they wanted the men to make the major decisions.”

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“They had no thought for the unfeminine problems of the world outside the home; they wanted the men to make the major decisions.”

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“Many women no longer left their homes, except to shop, chauffeur their children, or attend a social engagement with their husbands.”

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“Many women no longer left their homes, except to shop, chauffeur their children, or attend a social engagement with their husbands.”

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"They were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents."

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"They were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents."

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"If all wives stayed at home baking cookies, few families could afford to have homes of their own."

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"If all wives stayed at home baking cookies, few families could afford to have homes of their own."

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Stereotypes of suburban housewives were not always correct. The number of women with jobs and in education grew after WWII.

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 “We need a drastic reshaping of the cultural image of femininity that will permit women to reach maturity, identity, completeness of self.” -Betty Friedan 

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 “We need a drastic reshaping of the cultural image of femininity that will permit women to reach maturity, identity, completeness of self.” -Betty Friedan 

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Women married early to achieve feminism and happiness

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“Two-thirds of women not in the labor force spent much of their time in the home”

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Men belonged in the city: "serious work, women belonged in the suburbs: domesticity, "alienation" from city

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Women wanted to own homes, it was where they worked and lived

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(old thesis question)

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How did American culture influence housewives in the early 20th century?