Women and Work

Prior to the 1960s.

An ever-increasing number of women had entered the workforce since the 1870s, but over a 120-year period, the identity of the woman worker changed. From the 1820s, with the onset of industrialization in the United States, until 1940, the average female employee was young and single, and, if married, the woman working outside the home was likely poor and African-American. From the 1940s to the 1970s, however,

WHAT THINGS COST IN 1967

Average three-bedroom house $17,000
New Cadillac $6,700
New Volkswagen $1,497
Men's gray flannel suit $60
Portable typewriter $39
1 pound of sirloin...

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