How Is Family Modernized In The 1960's

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Starting in the 1960’s, there was a shift in the way people could view marriage and family. Families no longer stuck only in traditional values of husbands as the breadwinners and their wives as the homemaker, but adopting to a modern approach. The new perception of family took women out of the kitchen and into the workforce. Machines to replace much of the domestic duties as well as the idea of marriage as a union of mutual love and affection not duty and survival. Women in the 1950’s were subordinate to their husband with very little rights of their own. As society became more modernized in the 1960’s, society became more accepting of married women in the workforce. The feminist movement of the 1960’s gave way to equality for women. The

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