Working wives
I was doing more research on food journalism and came across this 1955 article by Jane Nickerson in the Women’s Pages. What I ended up most interested in was the article next to it – “Working Wives Claim Tradition.”
The story begins: “A wife and mother holding a full time job is not breaking tradition, a panel of working homemakers agreed today ina Farm and Home Week discussion.
When the country was an agricultural society women were an economic necessity in the home; today their granddaughters are simply making their economic contribution by working outside the home, the panel decided.”
This is certainly an interesting message to the women reading the section in 1955. And, it goes against much of the historical tale that women’s place was in the home during this time period.
Working wives
I was doing more research on food journalism and came across this 1955 article by Jane Nickerson in the Women’s Pages. What I ended up most interested in was the article next to it – “Working Wives Claim Tradition.”
The story begins: “A wife and mother holding a full time job is not breaking tradition, a panel of working homemakers agreed today ina Farm and Home Week discussion.
When the country was an agricultural society women were an economic necessity in the home; today their granddaughters are simply making their economic contribution by working outside the home, the panel decided.”
This is certainly an interesting message to the women reading the section in 1955. And, it goes against much of the historical tale that women’s place was in the home during this time period.
