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32. Tell me about all of the awesome women's rights of the 50's....

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Work
In the 1950s professional jobs were still largely closed off to women. It was not unusual for companies to have a written policy that stated that women should be paid less than men. On average, women earned only 60 percent of what men did. In addition, many women faced pressure from their families to stay home and not work at all outside the home. By 1960 only 3.5 percent of lawyers and 2 percent of business executives were women. By comparison, in 2005 30 percent of all lawyers were women, and 73 percent of women were working in "white collar" jobs. Since 1982 women have earned more university degrees than men -- as of 2004 they earned 58 percent of all bachelor's and master's degrees and 44 percent of all doctoral degrees.

Home
In addition to facing family and social pressures to stay home, cook and raise children, women's rights in the home were severely limited. In many states women's property rights were still restricted. In some states women could not make contracts, including wills. They also could not sell property and in many cases they could not control their own earnings. All of these were the legal right of the woman's husband or father.

In almost every state, men had the right to have sex with their wife any time they wanted to, with or without her consent. There was, in other words, no such thing as rape if a couple was married, and any form of birth control was still illegal in many places. The combination of these two meant that a woman was almost legally obligated to have children if her husband wanted them.



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