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"your wife (this was sexist times - men worked, women stayed home) probably didn't even have a drivers license" According to a internet search it seems about h
by staticman2 3y ago
"your wife (this was sexist times - men worked, women stayed home) probably didn't even have a drivers license"
According to a internet search it seems about half of women had driver's licenses. So this is not accurate. Anecdotal, but I just skimmed The Donna Reed show episode descriptions and a 1961 episode has her fighting a parking ticket, another 1961 episode has her daughter learning to drive.
- bluGill 3y ago1961 is 11 years after 1950. Things were changing fast then.
- staticman2 3y agoThere doesn't appear to be easily obtainable information on the internet showing how many married women had driver's licenses in 1950 [and just 1950] compared to married men (the federal government did not collect this information), however an article states "In the 1950s many suburban housewives obtained their licenses in order to fulfil their domestic responsibilities." it also states "Perhaps a quarter of women drove before the second world war and more learned to drive during the war." https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/pcharm/article/view/1546/1395 https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/pcharm/article/vie...