I can, however, speak to the impossibility of a woman having a job, for example, on the stock exchange. Or being invited to "the club" after a working day. Or being anything other than a secretary or receptionist in the big bad world of business. Those of you who follow Mad Men, the blockbuster HBO series set in the changing world of the 1960s, will have seen what it was like in the office in the beginning. A young friend called me when this show first came out to tell me I would love it, I should see it, and so I watched the first two episodes only to shrink with disgust at how real it was. I told her I couldn't take it, that if I were never reminded of those times I would be die happy.
So why was it that in spite of the restrictive high heels, garter belts, and girdles, Camp A believed we could be anything we wanted to be? And along came the 60s and indeed, we could. Did the women in Camp B miss the 60s because they married young and had children to tend? Did they just miss the changing opportunities because they could not internalize them? Or do we just have to put this off to differences in individual personalities, some more aggressive and some more passive?
I don't know, was hoping you all might offer up your own wisdoms.
Photo from Make-up, exposed bosoms... even talk of going to work! How Fifties women put the fear of God into British men. By
David Kynaston,
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1224829/Make-exposed-bosoms--talk-going-work-How-Fifties-women-fear-God-British-men.html#ixzz41lvB8cCp
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1224829/Make-exposed-bosoms--talk-going-work-How-Fifties-women-fear-God-British-men.html#ixzz41lvB8cCp
No comments:
Post a Comment