Images - Men, Women and Labor: West Germany

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1.	The Art of Maintaining a Household: All Purchases are Carefully Recorded (1950) After the war, women were gradually pushed out of “male jobs,” and by 1950 the female employment rate had fallen to 44.4 percent as compared with 49.8 percent in 1939. This drop reflected the prevailing....
2.	A Skeptical Glance at a Female Plumber’s Apprentice (1952) In 1950, there were 7.267 million working women in the Federal Republic of Germany; by 1960, this figure had risen to 9.747 million. However, since employment increased as a whole during this period,....
3.	A Secretary Takes Dictation on a Typewriter (1954) During the war and in the immediate postwar period, women filled the jobs of men who were fighting, had been killed, were missing in action, or were being held as POWs. In the late 1940s, though,....
4.	Advertisement for Lux Dishwashing Liquid from Stern Magazine (1959) The gender roles that prevailed in the early years of the Federal Republic were based on the traditional conservative ideas propagated by Federal Minister of Family Affairs Franz-Josef Wuermeling:....
5.	"Guest Workers" in their Living Quarters in Frankfurt am Main (1959) The “guest worker” [Gastarbeiter] recruitment agreement that West Germany signed with Italy on December 22, 1955, was the precursor to and model for additional West German treaties with Spain....
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