Don't forget that in the 1950s the US was legally (or quasi-legally) excluding huge portions of the population from the workforce. Women were only allowed to w

Don't forget that in the 1950s the US was legally (or quasi-legally) excluding huge portions of the population from the workforce. Women were only allowed to work in the "pink ghetto" (nurse, teacher, secretary) and African-Americans were locked out of high-paying union positions on the East Coast.