American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. ... By the late 1950s, both single and married American women were ready and waiting for a new and improved form of birth control.

The 1950s are often idealized as a golden age for women, with images of perfectly groomed housewives tending to their families in spotless homes. This era is frequently romanticized as a time when ...

Friedan took ideas and arguments that until then had been confined mainly to intellectual and political circles and she couched them in the language of the women’s magazines she had begun writing for ...

An American woman's constitutional right to an abortion has perhaps never been under greater threat than it is right now. Since 2010, Republican lawmakers have passed around 300 state laws that ...

The most common job for American women is — drum roll, please — secretary. In fact, according to the U.S. Census, the top five jobs for women in 2010 changed very little from 1950.

New data on the American workforce has revealed that our understanding of “gendered” jobs has changed drastically. In the 1950s, for example, a female bartender was statistically very unusual ...

The washable knitwear c. 1950s suit by Claire McCardell resides in the collections of the National Museum of American History. NMAH/SI Today, critiques are numerous of “fast fashion,” which ...