General Culture
Liskov was born in 1939 and attended college during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Between the two decades, much changed technologically, culturally, and politically. During the 1960’s free love, bellbottoms, and psychedelic hairstyle were the current way of life in America. The Beatles and Jimmy Hendrix played on the radio and while Bewitched and Andy Griffith ruled TV land in color (Paul Phipps 2013). Ford Mustangs ruled the road while an average gallon of gas was a average .31 a gallon (Paul Phipps 2016). In 1960 the US population was 177,830,000 and the labor force gender ratio was 49 men to 23 women. It was also a time when women weren’t able to serve on a jury or get on a birth control pill (Katie McLaughlin 2014). The stereotypical view of a woman was often a happy housewife and mother. Full time house makers spent 55 hours a week on domestic chores.
Tools, devices, appliances, and machines in use by women in that culture and era
The 1950’s introduced the first household washer and dryer and color television. By the 1960’s women of this era had an array of choices of household appliances and small kitchen appliances. With them included the washer dryer combo, five speed blender, an affordable color television, an iron (used for both clothing and hair), and (for those who could afford them) the microwave oven! (The People History 2015) Women in the 1960’s enjoyed salons just as modern today. Depending on their hairstyle most used a rigid-hood hair dryer to dry or cure the hair color. During this time women held most secretary and office jobs where they used typewriters to do much of their work. But by this time they were electric and mechanical ones phased out.
