1950s Gender Roles

Over the years, television has come a big part of American culture. Most houses have one if not more and it is common for restaurants and hotels to have them as well. We have gone from only black and white television to color television. We have gone from silent films to films with people talking with music playing in the background at the same time. Graphics have increased and acting has become and art. However, it is still all called television. Over the years, the way gender roles have been portrayed has changed. In the 1950 's women were portrayed as housewives who have low intelligence and are completely dependent on their husband. For example on the Burns and Allen Show, Season 2 Episode 2, which aired on CBS in 1951, George and Gracie are a married couple. The husband in this show is very smart and the wife is very dumb. In fact all the women in this show tended to be dumb and/or goofy. George has control of the household and the money. Gracie is gossipy and can 't get money. During this time period in America, it was a standard that women worked at home while the men went about taking care of making the money. The man is seen as the head of the household while women stay home and take care of the chores, have children, …show more content…
Usually they are labeled as comedies and are not part of the majority shown on television. However in the 2015, reboot of the movie Ghostbusters, many people did not like it. These people were mad at the gender switch. They didn 't mind that they were all female ghostbusters but the fact that the male secretary was straight up stupid. They claimed that you could not show men that way. Over the years television has changed moving men and women into a more equal playing field. Television has changed but yet remains the same. Most people watch it and people are entertained by it. Television has it 's place in most families just like it did back in the 1950 's and 1960