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The Forties: Keep the Home Fires Burning

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The Forties: Keep the Home Fires Burning

When men went off to war, women stepped in and kept the assembly lines rolling. We welded, we rationed and we waited for word from overseas.

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The Fifties: From Making to Baking Bread

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The Fifties: From Making to Baking Bread

Time to return to normal…father goes out to work, mother stays home and cleans and bakes and makes babies. This was what we wanted…wasn’t it?

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The Sixties: Liberation!

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The Sixties: Liberation!

Free from unwanted pregnancies, unsuccessful marriages and unwieldy undergarments, the liberation movement takes off. There are no limits… the world is ours to conquer!

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The Seventies: Disillusioned

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The Seventies: Disillusioned

Demoralized by political kidnappings, assassinations, and corruption; disillusioned with free love and mind-altering drugs; we withdrew or dropped out.

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The Eighties: The Me Generation

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The Eighties: The Me Generation

Assertive, well-educated and confident, we knew we could have it all…after all, we’d been competing for position since our kindergarten line-ups.

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