Relationships Between Men And Women In The 1960's

I was surprised by relationships between boys and girls in the 1960s. It is so much different than our society today. “I had no male friends. Except boyfriends. You were a boyfriend or no friend” (Collins 33). They often talked about boys and walked down the streets looking for boys, but they never were their friends. This is very different from my experiences with boys. I am friends with many boys and girls are not obsessing over a boy squealing their tires. I was also found it interesting that girls could never call a man or ask a male classmate about a homework assignment because that could lead him in the wrong direction. This impacted the ways interacted with males in the workplace and made it harder for women to get the respect needed for equality. I realized how different marriage was in the 1960s, compared to our society …show more content…
I found it fascinating how fast these couples were getting married. The wives had virtually no control in the relationship or their own lives. Women had no idea how to drive, write checks, own property, or control their money because men were in control of them for their whole lives. If a husband died, the woman was useless with her eighth grade education. Women were dependent of men because they never were given the opportunity to provide for themselves. Even if women were in abusive relationships, divorce was hardly an option. “Divorce was not a tight but a punishment that could be requested only by the innocent, aggrieved spouse when his or her partner had done something truly awful” (Collins 37). Adultery was the only grounds for divorce. Divorced women were punished for the failure of their marriage and were still in little control of their money. Women should not have been pressured into practically be married after their sixth date. They should have been given more control of lives and not just been given off to one man to another, like