2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Fifties were a better time. We need to return to a better Democratic Party. [View all]snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Rosie the Riveter absolutely seeded the revolution for women. And for people in my economic class, lower middle class, women worked. That's simple truth. Factual. And men who went to war should have gotten their jobs back. Why not? Was Rosie supposed to be kept and the soldiers told go home - your wife has taken your job? Think beyond what you're saying here. Rosie's experience made possible what came after. That and our sixties fight for civil rights that started with black rights and became rights for everybody eventually: gays, women, the disabled. You have to see a bigger picture.
Life magazine was a wonderful publication for pictures. I still have many. But Life didn't reflect real life. If that is your only source, how sad. Life took pockets of our society and shined a light on them. It was an early progenitor of People Magazine. And it did a disservice if your understanding of real life comes from Life Magazine. Maybe I don't understand your point about Life Magazine. It makes no sense to me.
Not mean. Uninformed. And what does subsidized/workplace childcare to do with my post?
http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/programs/child-care-the-american-history/
And my point is that history should not be forgotten. We should learn from the past. But the past shouldn't be stereotyped nor taken out of context/misunderstood either. Nor should beliefs be generalized over regions. It was a better time for those of us in the majority and that is my one alteration. And it was better because we had a more just economy that raised all boats. Even the poorest.
Unemployment has never been lower than the fifties and almost full employment fifties through seventies.
Truthfully, I'm not sure what your point is really. Is your point that for women it was worse? Is that your thesis?