List of the social changes you feel have occurred between the 1950s and now?

Question

List of the social changes you feel have occurred between the 1950s and now?

Answer 1

There would be too many to list here. I was a child in the 50s. I went to a segregated school. In high school, girls were not allowed to wear pants to school. We didn't call boys on the phone or ask them out on dates.

There were no cell phones, video games or computers. We got our first TV (black and white) in the early 50s and were one of the first families in my group of friends to get one. We had one telephone in the house and in 1950, the year we moved to our house in the country, we were on a 10 party line.

We didn't use seat belts. Toddlers stood on the seat between the mother and father. There were no interstate highways.

Girls mostly became secretaries, teachers, or stewardesses (called flight attendants now) unless they got married right out of high school.

There were no multi-screen theaters. Swimming pools were segregated, at least in the south, and movie theaters were, too.

The only sport that girls participated in at my school was basketball (or cheerleading, if you call that a sport.)

Very few of my friends' mothers worked outside the home. Pay differences between women and men were much greater than now. Although my mother and her friends didn't work, they played bridge and had home demonstration club meetings each month.

Extended families (grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins) were very important and frequently got together, especially on Sunday.

We didn't have a bomb sheleter at home, but we did have "duck and cover" drills at school which were different from the tornado drills where we would go into the hall of the school.

People were not as rude as they are now. Young people, especially, would never talk back to their parents or curse. We were taught to say yes mam' or yes sir, please, thank you. We wrote thank you notes for gifts.

When they went on an interview, young women wore gloves and hats and suits, never ever pants. Men didn't help around the house (unless perhaps their wife was too sick to cook).

No one pumped their own gas at the gas station. Someone would come out of the station, pump your gas, check your oil and wash your windows. Gas cost less than .20 cents per gallon.

I'm not sure what else would help you. These are just some of my memories from the 50s.

Answer 2

getting us to do your homework for you ... LOL.. nice try!