1950's Compare And Contrast Essay

The 2010’s and the 1950’s were two very important decades for women and their roles in society. The 2010’s is the social media era, where everything is online and electronic. 1950 is often called the hip decade. This was the decade where house wives were summed up in two words, June Cleaver. Wives catered to their husbands and took care of his every need before considering their own needs. Their “uniforms” were starch-ironed dresses with a spotless apron over it, accented with a string of pearls around their necks and a slim figure all around even after bearing forth at least three children, and to complete the entire outfit a pair of kitten heels. But most importantly they held the family together (Stoneham).

Family life was very important to mothers in the 1950’s, and it was very different than that of the 2010’s. For starters, most families would consist of a two a parent household, both a mother and a father. Divorce was not the norm because society’s pressure would have been on the

They have gone from being an object, that seemingly does nothing other than look pretty while making sandwiches in the kitchen to being scientists, amazingly talented surgeons not just the cute nurse, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, writers, professors, actresses, politicians in front of everyone not just behind closed doors, and the list goes on and on. Each mother, each woman has fought for her place, whether she knows it or not. She knows what exactly is at stake and she refuses to fail to become just another statistic, another number, and another blank face in a crowd that is full of desperation. It is in these times of struggle is when the true heroes are born. William Shakespeare wrote, “but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.” Hopefully he knew that these words would be remembered and said over and over by people for years and