#7: Hard Work Pays Off
For a long time, women weren’t given many options for what they were going to do with their lives. While men were encouraged to get an education, find a good job, and learn new skills, women were encouraged to aspire to be good and productive housewives for their husbands. And the advertisements of the time easily reflected such things.
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This advertisement is trying to sell a product to women to be even more efficient with their time cleaning the house so that they can look better for their husbands. That’s right; you read that correctly… Some of these ads seem so ridiculous that it’s hard to take them seriously, but the sad part is they are all very real.