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malletgirl02

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41. Not true for all people in the 1950s.

Sun Oct 3, 2021, 02:51 PM

Oct 2021

Many families during that time period and earlier needed two or even more incomes, meaning that not only mom and dad had to work outside the home, the kids also had to as well. My great grandmother was a maid, and her daughter my grandmother started working as a maid at 13. My paternal grandmother worked outside the home and worked until she died, and my maternal grandmother worked outside the home from when she was 13 until she had to retire due to health reasons. Also, both were not trailblazing feminists, just regular women fight with their husbands for their families to survive.

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