But the average American woman in the 1950s was not living in Greenwich Village or in museums of modern art. The average American women knew Betty Crocker and Marilyn Monroe, and was singing, "To Know Him is to Love Him along with the Teddy Bears. So what was the average American woman doing in the 1950s to make men not want to marry them anymore?
Reading Cosmo, Sex and the Single Girl, and The Moon is Blue.
These are the beginnings that blossomed in the 70s and have overtaken the culture.