Describe one way the experiences of women working inthe United States today are different than 50 yrs ago?

Answer 1

Well, I know when my mother became pregnant with my brother 45 years ago, she was only "allowed" by the company to work up until her fifth month of pregnancy. It was mandatory that women leave their jobs at that point.

It was also perfectly acceptable for an employer to ask a woman, before hiring, when she planned on having children, how many, if she was pregnant, if she was using birth control, etc.

Answer 2

Women 50 years ago often followed a job-then-marriage/children timetable, or a children-then-job strategy. Women now usually do a "career-then-children-during the career" strategy. Her employment is seen as an integral part of her identity, not as a way to pass the time until having children and settling down. It is seen as foolish to "settle down" and leave one's job now. Women did work 50 years ago, but it was seen as somewhat incompatable with being a mother to young children. So generally they spent a season mothering fulltime and not working for pay.

Answer 3

Having been alive then, you may want to search back to 100 yrs. Fifty years ago and before women were teachers, nurses and a slew of other clean jobs.

Answer 4

Equal pay for equal work. Women were traditionally paid less than men.
Women no longer have to leave their job when they marry. In the past, women who married had to give up their job.
Sexual harassment is no longer accepted. Just watch an old episode of I Love Lucy to see what I mean.

Answer 5

Let's see...50 years ago they were paid a lot less, restricted to certain jobs, and made to quit once they got married or reached a certain age.

Answer 6

Remember, social values were different then. Women were still wearing three-lined skirts and laced-up tops. However, the 50 was a transition period for women, because they found out that they could work those assembly-lines as well as men, while they worked during WWII. However, the returning of men from the war, dramatically changed women in the workforce. But then you had secretarial jobs, nursing, teaching and a few well established business mind women. There were commercials advertised just for women, that showed a modeled wife working in a kitchen filled with futuristic kitchen wares and all sorts of gadgetry's. Women were still considered the caretakers of the home. This is where the term wife-beater came in, because the husband was considered the head, and if something wasn't to his liken then he would beat her. Then, if the women called the police, the police would have mostly likely treated the women with scorn and bias, while the husband treated the police men to a cold bear. A perfect example of this was JFK/Martin Luther King J. Women had no were to go for support. They could really support themselves. Getting a divorce was the last thing on a women's mind, and she sometimes wouldn't dare to tell her relatives. There is something that is sexy about having power over women, but there is nothing sexy about abusing them. Today our values on a social scale has shifted, dramatically. I believe our scope of democracy and the freedom to practice our "God-give-rights" has massed globally, surpass the limited shores of the United States. So, we will never se marriage, for what it meant then, as how we see it now!

Answer 7

50 years ago women had three legitimate choices;
1) school teacher
2) nurse
3) housekeeper/maid/cook

Answer 8

Women can now get a man sacked by falsely accusing him of any level of sexual harassment - she gets a smug thrill, he gets a career death grip.

meanwhile, men just have to shut up and tolerate the hypocrisy & office gossip.

Answer 9

One obvious way is that jobs are no longer categorized as "Jobs for Men" and "Jobs for Women" - women are now free to apply for any job they choose - it's no longer predetermined.

Answer 10

Sounds kinda like you are trying to get other people to do your homework for you...lol.