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  • TunaCowboy@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe Good Old Days
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    4 months ago

    women could have jobs and own property just fine in the 50’s

    This is a really misinformed idea of the time period. Women could have jobs and own property, but often informally required a man’s permission.

    Want a loan, healthcare, start a business, etc.? Does your father/husband know about this?

    If you were married with kids and your husband left - you absolutely had to find a new male partner. Life was nearly unnavigable without a male counterpart, and in many places single mothers were shunned - the social pressure was enormous.

    Go watch a TV up into the 80s. Even in MASH, a progressive show for its time, a woman being sexually assaulted is likely to cue a fucking laugh track.

    So yeah, tax rates and wages for a particular type of person may have sane, don’t expect LGBTQ+, women, or POC to look upon the time period fondly.

    Your reaction to this photo (1956) shouldn’t be, ’ but look, negroes could afford nice dresses’.