Findings # 1

Women have always seemed to be a shadow of the times, but has society ‘dressed’ woman, or is she a product of her own deivces? Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Sara Palin; women all over the world are taking chanes and moving into positions that wouldn’t have  been considered ‘lady-like’a few years ago.  Matel along with The White House Project (a group wanting to see a women in the White House) paretnered together to create a President Barbie. Marine Willson (President of The White House Project) stated, “Through Barbie, and its ‘I Can Be’ President Barbie, little girls have had the opportunity to lead the country from their living rooms and bedrooms, or get out their Barbie and Ken dolls and call a joint session of Congress.  We at The White House Project are thrilled to be partnering with Barbie as she celebrates her 125th career and continues to inspire girls of all ages to follow their dreams.”  In the later half of the 1960’s, with free love and feminism reborn, women felt free to wear and do what they pleased. Socail reblion was in style, women followed the movment taking on more male roles not only in the workplace, but the household too. In the midst of the Cold War with the Soivet Union, America felt pressured to keep up with the norm and be ‘normal’. The last thing someone would have wanted was to be seen as an Unamerican, or worst be one of the many to be questioned, in what would latered be called Mcarthy-ism. Women were not excluded from this fear of not being normal; gentlelady, mother and doting wife were the titles women strived for and hoped to be. Looking good was essential during the Secound World War. (Kim Cox) The propaganda for women to be beautiful, but still help up hold the United States Rations were the most brazen they have ever been in American History. Women everywhere felt the pressure to be the prefect American, by  supporting the war effort, going to work, and looking as beautiful as ever. Just a decade ealier, women for the first time were introduced to trousers. With The Great Depression sucking away America’s ecomomy, everyone everywhere needed a job.  Women went and found work anywhere they could, even if it was ‘not a women’s job.’ Soicety has a major role in how women act and what women do, time will only tell just how much of an impact society has on the future genorations of women.