In a lot of ways I feel lucky not to have lived in the 1950s
My whole profession was not even open to women at the time, and the specific job I have didn't exist.
The girdles I have to wear to work are "killer" by TODAY'S standards, but the models I mostly use date to the Mid 1960s and were NOTHING compared to what many office workers wore then.
Health care, especially for women orbits a different star than it did then.
The only option for a yeast infection was a weeks worth of DAILY iodine douches!! I shudder to think about it!!
With those girdles and many offices being completely unairconditioned, Yeast infections would have been far more common. They aren't rare now!
Even getting to work! Breathing fumes from cars with no emissions controls burning leaded gasoline. Driving a car with drum breaks and carburetors so crude they made things worse. In the 1970s it was discovered that it actually took MORE calorie burn, to drive a "three on the tree" manual transmission than a modern floor-mounted manual transmission.
Dad tells me that when he was a 'teen or early 20-something he heard so many insulting comments about "woman drivers" that if he "had a nickle"for every time he heard it "Warren Buffett, bill Gates and Jeff Bezos would have NOTHING" compared to him!
Yes, I DO very much admire the women of that era! Considering what they had to go through to accomplish ANYTHING other than popping out babies they had to be so strong and determined!
They built the world that made it possible for modern women to do all the things we do.