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Women in the workforce
Women were encouraged to return home while their husbands continued to work -
Labour force during World War Two
After the war, women were encouraged to return home while their husbands continued to work -
American society
Glorified as ‘political simplicity, moral innocence (and) sexual naiveté’ -
Mills College curriculum
Female students should "foster the intellectual and emotional life of her family and community" and take classes in family finance -
Television
"The Golden Age of Television" -
American Workforce
29% of the American Workforce were females -
Television dinners
Clarke and Gilbert Swanson of Omaha saw the need for television dinners and began selling frozen potpies on a national scale -
Television
Known as "The Golden Age of Television" -
Clarke and Gilbert Swanson
Began selling frozen potpies on a national scale to assist women in relation to making food for the family -
House and Garden article declared
Family-oriented lifestyles of young couples declared the family to be ‘as American as apple pie’ -
Radios
Pocket-size transistor radio was created -
House and Garden article declaration
Family-oriented lifestyles of young couples are ‘as American as apple pie’ -
Transistor radio
The pocket-size transistor radio was created -
Social commentators warnings
Women who spent too much time outside the house were endangering their families, neglecting their husbands and especially their children -
Jerrie Cobb
The first woman from the United States to undergo astronaut testing -
Transistor radios
The most popular electronic communication devices in history -
Evolution of the transistor radio
Most popular electronic communication device in history -
Television enhanced
By the mid-1950s, television was firmly entrenched in the world of news and information as well as election coverage -
Television evolved
Television was firmly entrenched in the world of news and information as well as election coverage. -
Computer hard disk
The first computer hard disk was used -
Hard disk
First computer hard disk was used -
Women in national office
Out of the 531 members of Congress 16 were women -
Working women
12% of women held a profession and 6% held management positions -
Cardiac pacemaker
John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker -
John Hopps
Invention of the first cardiac pacemaker -
Study of females in college
37% of female college students were leaving school before they graduated, most for marriage