The 1950s was a time of conformity, seen in the iconic 50s fashion style. Women wore full skirts and cinched waists, whilemen preferred tailored suits. This conformity extended beyond fashion into gender roles, politics, and culture. The 50s fashion style represented unity and sameness, reflect...
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." - Faith Whittlesey Are you firmly rooted in the 1950's when it comes to your gender roles, or do you have a tendency to be more modern in your viewpoints? Are your gender roles ...
genderoccupational segregationJEL Codes: J62, J24, N56This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of women's mobility into and out of male-dominated occupations in Puerto Rico during a period of rapid development between the 1950s and the early 1980s. The paper uses data from the ...
Examining gender roles and control dynamics posthumously can be difficult. If both partners accept that men are the natural authority in the home, power abuses can remain relatively invisible until something happens to challenge or disturb the status quo. Controlling coercive behavior by the male ...
2002). In qualitative research on female family and gender roles in some South Asian communities, Aston et al. (2007) find that the value shift is partly due to the fact that the second generation women received education in Britain and might have more exposure to the gender role attitudes ...
Housewives' Enterprise : Media Representation of Women's Work Collectives and the Politics of Gender in Japan 189 7 Domesticity, modernity and women's rights: voluntary women's organisations and the women's movement 1950鈥 64 What is a wife? A woman who sets jam to ... 沓澤,清美 - 城西...
Filming Women in the Colonies Gender Roles in New State Cinema about the EmpireChapter pp 71–85 Cite this chapter Gender, Empire, and Postcolony Patrícia Vieira 176 Accesses Abstract The year 1933 marked the institutionalization of the Portuguese New State (Estado Novo). With the creation of...
State policies and women's autonomy in China, India, and the Republic of Korea, 1950-2000 : lessons from contrasting experiences The authors compare changes in gender roles and women's empowerment in China, India, and the Republic of Korea. Around 1950, these newly formed states were... M...
in gender roles led to a convergence in the gender gap in all types of crime (Adler, 1975;Hunnicutt and Broidy, 2004). Another variant proposes that women's increasedlabor force participationcreated new opportunities for crime in the workplace (Simon, 1975). Both variants have been criticized...
gender differences and the unresolved conflict between employment and family roles that had persisted in the Western part of divided Germany. This chapter presents an overview of womens policies in both Germanies before unification and discusses their effect on the situation of women in the post-...