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In reply to the discussion: If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the mot difficult thing to explain? [View all]amandabeech
(9,893 posts)My Mom, who will be 91 later this month, and her mother, now deceased but was born in 1893 and died in 1990, have and had exclaimed about women going into the profession, politics and business with considerable success.
My grandmother had a hard time with my former legal career. Interestingly, her a bit younger sister and brother were very proud of me.
When I'm home with Mom in rural Michigan, I watch the PBS Newshour. My Mom always remarks about the incredibly intelligent women panelists. She doesn't comment on the hosts, but on the panelists.
Part of my family is Catholic and part Protestant, and there were all kinds of problems up until WWII. The Klan burned a cross in the field by my Catholic ancestor's farm house in the brief Klan revival of the 1920s even though my grandfather and his brother were WWI vets, and his brother received the Purple Heart. There were many fewer problems after The Big One. It was longer and really took the effort of everyone. I think that WWII is now underestimated as an event that pushed social change here.