Marriage Advice from the 50's # 2

 “To be a successful wife is a career in itself, requiring among other things, the qualities of a diplomat, a businesswoman, a good cook, a trained nurse, a schoolteacher, a politician and a glamour girl.” Emily Mudd 

Marriage Advice from the 50's # 1

"Clifford Adams thus assured wives whose husbands were prone to violence that following a program of avoiding arguments, indulging their husbands’ whims, helping them relax, and sharing their burdens would “foster harmony” in the home and make them “happy wives.”", in Making Marriage Work: a History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth Century by Kristin Celello, Assistant Professor at Queen's University