A Womans Dilemma
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What will she do when her children are grown? In , with the post-war United States awash in considerations of how women ought best to spend their lives, LIFE profiled how a selection of American women had answered that question. A generation before, the story noted, the women in the story would likely have been happy — or at least put on happy faces — about seeing marriage as a "complete future.
Many more professional avenues are available to American women today than were in the past, but the basics of this year-old story will still ring true for many.
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The full-time workers, at least those who could afford to have a choice in the matter, had to earn enough to cover childcare costs. Those who stayed home full-time were faced with an uncertain future if they planned to return to the workforce later, though by LIFE's count U. If they did not plan to return to work after their children were grown, they faced a life, in the magazine's words, of being "bored stiff.
And, as Frances Levison wrote in an essay to accompany the story, all this analysis of the "dilemma" had an "inevitably disturbing effect" on the gender in question — serving as a reminder of one more kind of inequality faced by American women: A nice husband, three fine children keep her bus Lily Rothman, Liz Ronk. A week's work for Marjorie McWeeney is assembled by Bloomingdale's store.
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In the first full-length study of Mercy Otis Warren () to appear in a generation, Professor Zagarri draws on recent work in social, political, and women's. Mercy Otis Warren was one of the most accomplished women of theRevolutionary era. At a time when women had no political voice, herwritings helped propel.
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