Connected Quote by David Brinkley
![“In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.” quote by David Brinkley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ba/david-brinkley-25462_connected_in-the-forties-1940s-in-washington-it-wa_2386979.jpg)
“In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.”
![“Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it…” quote by Jon Hamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/182/jon-hamm-8288_1960s_men-ruled-the-roost-and-women-played-a-s_2379052.jpg)
