how has the socialization of women changed since the 1950's?

Answer 1

In the 50's, women were told that all they could ever want was:

1. a rich husband
2. five darling children
3. a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence

Now, we're told that all we could ever want is everything.

Answer 2

Well, in the 1950s, the presented and common career options for women were quite limited. For middle class women, the careers they were told they could have before marriage were teacher or nurse. Upper class women had slightly expanded options but in all cases the assumption was that eventually they would marry. This is not the case today. People know that women can and should pursue whatever career they are interested in and capable of pursuing and marriage/committed relationships are understood to be an option to be pursued when love is there, not as a means of satisfying your career arch (for most people).

Answer 3

Not enough to be statistically significant when dealing with an evolved human nature which engenders what is social, not the other way around.
Telling and doing are two different things. So are what people say about what they will do and what they really do. Reproductive success is the coin evolution pays in and no superficial " socialization " has ever trumped that.
Wanting change and working for justice is, as always, the correct way for our species. It is in our shared institutions and not some abstraction of relativistic social science that has brought us to this more egalitarian society.

Answer 4

Women have entered all areas of the workforce, including those previously dominated by males. Still, many working women still hold on to traditional values in the home.

Answer 5

One thing still has not changed since the 1950s: women still have not gotten themselves weaned off the Cinderella complex.

Answer 6

I don't understand the disparity in the thumbs-ups and thumbs down between Rio Madeira's answer and Guns_fan's answer. Essentially, they said the same thing. When all women can ever want is everything, the implication is that they're spoiled.

Answer 7

There's nothing wrong with being spoiled if you want more out of your life than to marry young, have lots of children, and then sit at home waiting for your husband to get home from work. I know social conservatives like to glorify this era as being the ideal for families but I don't think they really would want to go back to it if they knew that people lived in smaller houses, had one car, and often had relatives living with them in those smaller houses.

Answer 8

Women have become more spoiled