he fifties portrayed the husband leaving for work and only returning to make decisions that the wife knew was beyond her ability to make. They showed the wife, always, neatly pressed with not a hair out of place, fixing dinner while the husband reads the newspaper and talks to the children. Both were shown to be completely satisfied in their roles.
             Were the assumptions concerning the roles of men and women valid? No more than other stereotypes are valid. William J. Goode, in World Revolution and Family Patterns, shows that "the classical family of Western nostalgia" was a false stereotype and thus othe
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