Women take factory jobs to save for a home (1961) | RetroFocus

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  • According to these working women, one wage wasn't enough to buy a home in 1961. A reporter asked what effect their jobs had on their marriage and children.
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  • @TTBOn00bKiLleR
    @TTBOn00bKiLleR 4 роки тому +281

    now we both work and still come short

    • @LordOfNoobstown
      @LordOfNoobstown 4 роки тому +7

      there actually is a great deal of evidence that introducing women into the workforce correlates highly with living quality and economic prosperity in a country

    • @tastycookiechip
      @tastycookiechip 4 роки тому +18

      @@LordOfNoobstown except now kids are tossed off to daycare to be raised by strangers rather than their actual parents.

    • @Lily-sy5gz
      @Lily-sy5gz 3 роки тому

      @@LordOfNoobstown depends on the country

    • @naomiwilliams8850
      @naomiwilliams8850 3 роки тому +6

      We now need 3 incomes for a comfortable life.

    • @elliea595
      @elliea595 3 роки тому

      @@naomiwilliams8850 yeah the kids must work too now haha

  • @chelskate17
    @chelskate17 4 роки тому +69

    I love the old Aussie accent!

    • @jonquilcat7945
      @jonquilcat7945 3 роки тому +3

      it's not the accent per se, it's the audio recording quality :-)

    • @HoLeeSheet117
      @HoLeeSheet117 3 роки тому +3

      @@jonquilcat7945 not really, definitely the accent.

  • @wonteatit
    @wonteatit 4 роки тому +68

    I'd love it as a hard of hearing person if there were captions added for these videos.

    • @gssci
      @gssci 4 роки тому +13

      I shouldn't do free advertising for Google, but Pixel phones have system wide auto-captioning that work like magic, I'm using it because I can't understand the accent very well

    • @spjr99
      @spjr99 Рік тому

      @@gssci i second this guys comment

    • @anneb889
      @anneb889 Рік тому

      When I touch the screen a CC button does come up. Maybe that didn’t 3 yrs ago?

  • @chardsnake
    @chardsnake 5 років тому +89

    God bless women

    • @drowningin
      @drowningin 4 роки тому

      If god wanted to bless women, why did he give them painful child birth? I believe there's only one other mammal that has painful child births

    • @charlieschurk
      @charlieschurk 3 роки тому +8

      mushy all mammals give birth the same way it isn’t just humans

    • @voguehaven5154
      @voguehaven5154 2 роки тому

      @@drowningin all mammals have painful births. Its a part of life.

  • @forestrot666
    @forestrot666 4 роки тому +42

    Curious to hear these interviews in other countries at the time.

  • @birds8529
    @birds8529 4 роки тому +19

    i just LOVE these woman

  • @markc65
    @markc65 5 років тому +15

    Thanks for uploading these.

  • @maryallison0509
    @maryallison0509 3 роки тому +17

    Because of women like these a mother isn’t tied to being at home. And made to be satisfied cooking cleaning and taking care of her husband and children. My parents were married in 1958. And my mom worked full time since she met dad then until she started showing she was pregnant. She was put on maternity leave. Then when she returned back to work she worked opposite shifts to my dad. So they didn’t need to pay for sitters. My dad spent even time taking care of his kids and doing cooking and cleaning. Yeah equal responsibility

  • @misterPerez11
    @misterPerez11 4 роки тому +39

    Yo this really wasn't that long ago

  • @greatsisyphus7712
    @greatsisyphus7712 3 роки тому

    These UA-camrs really have a particular style. I like it.

  • @blueycarlton
    @blueycarlton 3 роки тому +1

    The reporter I believe is Michael Charlton who went to England and worked for along time for the BBC, Panorama programme? He has already cultivated a pommy type accent. It's so different from his brother Tony who worked on TV in Melbourne for a long time at Channel 9.

  • @kenyacwilson
    @kenyacwilson 4 роки тому +3

    Did anyone notice the microphone?

  • @riisuba
    @riisuba 4 роки тому +35

    I wish we spoke like this today. The accent and choice of words is just beautiful. Compared to the Karens that we have now

    • @ooDirtyMickoo
      @ooDirtyMickoo 3 роки тому

      Everyone read back then. Language has declined.

    • @nutellabootycakes
      @nutellabootycakes 3 роки тому +2

      @@ooDirtyMickoo that’s a bit biased, don’t you think?

    • @ooDirtyMickoo
      @ooDirtyMickoo 3 роки тому

      @@nutellabootycakes maybe. Biased in what way?

    • @nutellabootycakes
      @nutellabootycakes 3 роки тому +1

      @@ooDirtyMickoo I would say that “Language has declined” is heavily opinionated since it’s definitely up for debate. I would like to see evidence for your claim though. I’m openminded to it

  • @ericastier1646
    @ericastier1646 3 роки тому +6

    People were defintively more happy in 1960's. You can hear it in how they speak.

  • @Donato93
    @Donato93 2 роки тому

    How times have changed.

  • @chardsnake
    @chardsnake 5 років тому +7

    Reading these comments let me know that Australians are more paranoid about the Chinese than america is about Russian or middle-eastern invasion.

  • @farihaahmed4790
    @farihaahmed4790 7 місяців тому

    Man i wish women like that existed today.

  • @tamarawilson9642
    @tamarawilson9642 3 роки тому +9

    Women.....we have come a far way

  • @peterwyman1082
    @peterwyman1082 3 роки тому

    I find these so fascinating...currently on a 60's British population opinions bender. UA-cam am I right?

  • @rickmarx5495
    @rickmarx5495 4 роки тому +7

    Where's the Blacks???? 😂😂😂

    • @HenryDube72
      @HenryDube72 4 роки тому +8

      ...in Australia? Or you mean the aboriginals?

    • @HenryDube72
      @HenryDube72 4 роки тому +6

      @Good Enough they were civilised in their own way I reckon

    • @JennyH-yr1hj
      @JennyH-yr1hj 4 роки тому +4

      @Good Enough who's to say that aboriginals didn't have an 'advanced' social life and culture. Not for anyone to judge

    • @NotThatUser
      @NotThatUser 4 роки тому +3

      Good Enough
      Civilised is the European way of spelling Civilized.
      It’s like colorized vs. colorised or humor vs. humour

    • @lucdesprets8057
      @lucdesprets8057 4 роки тому +1

      @@NotThatUser Belgium prefers the American way of spelling things. We're very much European...... We are the Capital of Europe to be exact!!!!!!

  • @marcuswatts7215
    @marcuswatts7215 5 років тому +38

    We really need to be more traditional, families were far stronger back then Marriages lasted and compromises were made for the family.

    • @malorie8557
      @malorie8557 5 років тому +12

      Agreed. We have had our fun, we experienced, we delved in the pleasures (some more than others) but it's not sustainable. We need to bring back commitment and healthy homes.

    • @rowandawson9750
      @rowandawson9750 4 роки тому +23

      By compromises, do you mean the men take care of money and the women do the housework and watch the children? I honestly think "traditional" family's had all the problems that modern ones do, but with less autonomy

    • @JennyH-yr1hj
      @JennyH-yr1hj 4 роки тому +31

      Marriages lasted because it was harder to leave them and there was less freedom for a woman to live without a domestic sphere

    • @ljm4418
      @ljm4418 4 роки тому +15

      @@JennyH-yr1hj Yes it's weird to hear people say people were happier back in a time when getting a divorce was so taboo, or even before that when it was barely legal. People have more freedom now and people change!

    • @Lily-sy5gz
      @Lily-sy5gz 3 роки тому +9

      Dude the reason marriages lasted longer is because it was less socially acceptable to have a divorce and very hard so if the husband and wife didn't get along they were pretty much stuck

  • @KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza
    @KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza 5 років тому +21

    1961 was better, our country was better

    • @s.tagerius2514
      @s.tagerius2514 5 років тому +5

      Maybe in some respects, but we've come a long way since then.

    • @KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza
      @KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza 5 років тому

      @@s.tagerius2514 yes, well australia was, I'm from kaliningrad

    • @s.tagerius2514
      @s.tagerius2514 5 років тому +1

      @@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza I'm from the UK (England).

    • @newagemedia7082
      @newagemedia7082 5 років тому +1

      I agree Australia was better back then

    • @s.tagerius2514
      @s.tagerius2514 5 років тому +1

      @Hello, Sidney! I mean as a species.