The United States was facing hard times in the jobs aspect. The poor were getting poorer and the rich kept getting richer. The poor people needed a way to make money, but jobs were scarce during these times. The opening of factories and maintenance facilities allowed for new jobs to open up, in large quantities. The inventions of many new tools, such as the lightbulb, the telephone, and the railroad system allowed for the Americans lives to be easier.
1 Women’s lives after the two world wars changed, but there is some debate as to how much it changed. Their lives changed politically, with women gaining the vote, they changed in terms of employment, as they were now permitted to join certain professions and they also changed socially as a better way of living was set out for them. It is argued that women were given greater opportunities after the wars due to their exceptional participation on the home front. However, many historians believe that this change in women’s lives was simply due to the changing times and the progression in society. The historical debate surrounding this topic is wether women’s lives really did change greatly after the two world wars, or wether their lives simply went back to the way they were before the war started.
Cars were also a hot commodity in the 1950s. More new cars meant new road ways and that is when the interstate impacted everyone’s travel. Since the 50s had a good economy the price for housing was low, and most families had enough money to buy two cars. This was due to there being more jobs for women so both parents could have a job. Also the work week was shorter, and there was a higher pay for them after the war.
The Industrial Revolution in Britain had created an Empire, rich with wealth and prosperity. This affected the social class system during this time. New reforms made to the education system and the continuous growing wealth amongst the upper and middle classes, provided women with more leisure time and an increase in independence. Upper class women found that they had more time on their hands whilst middle class women were running their own businesses or taking up respectable positions as doctors, architects and teachers. However, there were significant differences between the female classes especially where the working class women were concerned.
The fact that people would travel West and have a new way of life using the new technology and at the same time being able to have land that was all their own. The national economy grew because more people were making money since they had very nice industry jobs. People could afford more things in life that were not considered a necessity. One of the major inventions during the Industrial Revolution was the railroad. It played a major role in the westward expansion during the Industrial Revolution.
Without the changing role of women, things that we have in everyday life as American’s could possibly not exist. Women not only were more help to the family, but they were helping rebuild the nation. As a whole, women helped clean up the process of urbanization and immigration, helped literature grow, and helped change the ongoing problem of women’s suffrage. After the Civil War, many people from other countries started immigrating to America. As a result, urbanization quickly started going out of control due to lack of communication, too many people being forced into slums, and many other reasons.
The most famous car was the T-ford motor car. Jobs were easy to get and people became better paid. There was a big social change. For example, as middle-class women became better off they enjoyed greater social freedom - they wore make-up, shorter skirts and smoked in public. The treatment of women was a big social change for example the number of working women increased by 25 per cent and women were given the right to vote.
The women’s trend being a primary breadwinner is increasing because the larger number of women are earning higher degrees and entering the workforce (Claire). Sarah Jane Glynn, an analyst with the Center for American Progress, told the Washington Post that the recent recession accelerated the trend. “Part of what’s happening is that more men have been getting laid off and are having difficulty finding work…And with the way the recovery’s played out, some men who lost their jobs wound up taking others that paid less,” she noted (Claire). With the rise of working women, it is beneficial for the family as they are contributing more income towards the family. In today’s economy, when the cost of everything is going very high, it is very hard to raise the kids and run the family.
Feminists point out that, womens expectations of marriage and life have risen during the last century and are not willing to accept the traditional housewife role. Women have become more successful than men in education and many of them are in paid employment, some of them in managerial positions. This has reduced the economic dependency women have on men, reducing their reasons for marriage therefore changing the patterns of marriage. Women nowadays are more likely to marry because of love and affection. There has been a dramatic increase in the divorce rate in the past 40 years due to changes in the law making it affordable and easier and changes in society making it more acceptable.
If unemployment falls, less people will be claiming unemployment benefits and other similar pay-outs from the government, this will allow a lot of tax to be spent on other things, such as expanding public services further, which also leads to an increase in living standards. Another benefit of economic growth is the increase in confidence, with all these new goods and services on offer to the country, the consumer