The 1950s are often idealized as a golden age for women, with images of perfectly groomed housewives tending to their families in spotless homes. This era is frequently romanticized as a time when ...

Housewives in the 1950s enjoyed much more active sex lives than women of today, other research has found, because their time was not divided between career, childcare and socialising as it is now.

The 1950s were not about slouchy handbags: The name of the game was structured, polished, and buttoned up. Kogan sees ...

The "M.R.S." Degree In the 1950s, women felt tremendous societal pressure to focus their aspirations on a wedding ring. The U.S. marriage rate was at an all-time high and couples were tying the ...

From April 7, the Standard Minimum Guarantee (SMG) will rise by 4.1 per cent as part of the annual uprating exercise. This will see the SMG for a single pensioner rise to £227.10 per week and for a ...

Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon, and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French-Indochina war ...

The DWP has urged all women born in the 1950s, who have long campaigned against age rises, to check their eligibility for a ...