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The s Housewife
For a woman, were the s and s the best of times or the worst of times?
The life of the average married woman in the s and 60s was very different from that of today’s woman.
This was the age of respectability and conformity.
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Very few women worked after getting married; they stayed at home to raise the children and keep house. The man was considered the head of the household in all things; mortgages, legal documents, bank accounts. Only the family allowance was paid directly to the mother.
Should a woman find herself in a loveless or violent marriage, she was trapped; she had no money of her own and no career.
It was still unusual for women to go to university, especially working class women.
Best selling women's biographiesMost left school and went straight into work until they married. Secondary schools &#; even grammar schools &#; prepared girls for this life: lessons were given in cookery, household management, darning, sewing and even how to iron an shirt properly.
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