The fifties weren't that bad for women,compared to the life of their mothers. New labour saving devices were become common place( electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners for example) and post war pre immigration,there was plenty of work for their husbands. It was expected that they stayed at home and looked after their children -no financial pressure to 'have to go to work' and if their children were ill they took them straight to the doctor the same day, waited in line at the surgery and got seen by a doctor. I don't get this 'they didn't expect to enjoy sex' milarky -if that was the case why did so many women have to get married? The article is a gross exaggeration of all the less positive things about the fifties and the same article cold be written about Contemporary womem - financial and social pressure to work outside the home, dealing with debt, lack of work, zero hour contracts,husbands having 'Cyber sex' -every era has ots good and its bad points. I was born in the late 50's BTW so my childhood was 1960's and frankly I wish I could go back to that era I hate what this world has become.