How Much Energy Does A Housewife Use In A Day

To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. I love these 1950s and 1960s films for what they show about sexism at that time. This one is part of my collection--a lifelong passion of mine. What it shows is true today. But the fact that they had to make this film shows that men then, and too often now, underestimate how hard it is to be a homemaker/housewife. I used portions of my collection to create my television series, Making Sense of the Sixties.

[@muppetbaby1000]

my mother did all these things .sewed our clothes and knit and crocheted ...made our curtains and blankets and pajamas , even coats. She canned goods and froze fresh vegetables from the garden. Made all our food from scratch. There was always freshly baked items to go with our tea after school. She made dolls clothes and arranged flowers.She kept a beautiful home and has been married to my father for close to sixty years and raised five children.Thank you Mom...you are amazing

[@mariamanilenko1120]

Paisley Rose Wow, I hope to be at least half as well as that.

[@HappyToBeKLB]

What a legacy! Thanks for sharing this little glimpse into your mother's life!

[@homemakerandglamour29victo29]

I am a homemaker myself. I love it so much. Always wanted to be a wife mother and a stay at home wife/mother now I am and couldn't be happier.

[@JP-br4mx]

two years later. any update?

[@QuietlyCurious]

People arguing in the comments about this video--there was nothing wrong with the 50s housewife role. It's annoying that people are villainizing that role alone for the whole of women's troubles. The real problem is when roles are FORCED onto people, when people are narrowly groomed in childhood to become one thing or another and anyone who does not fit into those confines or who expresses a desire to do something different with their lives is ostracized and attacked. So stop demonizing the housewife role. It's simply one of many types of lifestyles that yes, can make a person happy if it's right for them. If these women insist they were happy living this way, I believe them and would not say they are ignorant, unintelligent or not of sound mind. Home, hearth and family are important to a lot of people and judging by the state of the world today, it might behoove us to revisit those values now.

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

I'm a homemaker and yes, it really is hard work...but very rewarding! I love that the only boss I have to please is myself.

[@Enobia]

I would have loved to be a 50s housewife, and to this day I want to be a housewife/stay at home mom. I love the responsibilities

[@moniquereinds8804]

I really like doing all these things... I want to become a Housewife

[@ashleymorgan9126]

Me too:-)

[@chloeprice3922]

I am a housewife... I don’t care what you do as a job, I will trade you 😂 It’s harder than it seems and rarely do I get recognition for doing anything.

[@franlooving4203]

Chloe Price: I know it's hard, but I thank you. Keep in mind that some people quietly appreciate you inside their head, not saying it out loud. If you have kids one day, they'll reflect back on all you do. You are setting a good example to other women, friends, kids...in the world/in your town. I do understand that many women don't get appreciated for the work they do at home and believe me-I could improve on my cleaning skills. I'm better at some tasks over others; I have more energy some days and less on others. I know that it is important work so I just tell myself "Good Job". LOL. Hang in there!

[@lasv15]

Me too.

[@Jasmin-in6ub]

Me too 🙂

[@meganjane7677]

@ Michele simmons a female should be able to do as she pleases however your comment is rude, disrespectful, and ignorant to the women who actually do stay at home. Especially if they are raising a child which is double the work. I don't think people realize how much work it actually takes. Just because you don't agree with a women being a housewife doesn't give you the right to bash them. You don't think running a household is work than I'm pretty sure you have never actually done it. You Should Get Over Yourself!!! Kind of ironic that someone would groan about the awful work a housewife does that they are apparently too lazy to do themselves, yet they turn around and call housewives lazy Remember this back then when a lot of women were housewives kids were more well behaved. Now look at how disrespectful children are today.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you for your comment. I agree with what you say. I think that Michele is referring to what men believe about women. She calls that sexist and pathetic. I don't disagree with her. But I absolutely agree with you that women should be honored for the extraordinarily complex and difficult job they do as housewives and mothers

[@TheQuaintHousewife]

I'm a housewife and I love this video. Thanks.

[@AliciaVintage]

My dream life:)

[@proud2bpagan]

It's been estimated that if mothers were actually paid for all the work they do in a day, they'd earn over 90,000 dollars a year. With what my mom went through to raise my brother and I, that's not nearly enough.

[@jr4062]

Great video about the past, and the video is a tribute to a woman, I don’t see it as anything negative, but if I’m wrong, I will now apologize in advance. Mr. Hoffman, your collection of videos is the best. Hope I get to see that Dylan one someday.

[@fennecfox9490]

I think the sarcasm in this was directed towards those who think that housework is easy. "Clinging vine" for example, was used tongue-in-cheek.

[@flutterby8462]

I can’t work out if this is being sarcastic or not lol. But I’m loving the facts 😂

[@Darlavonderheide]

Great video, thank you. I like it to be a housewife.

[@Emeraldxx]

Do you know who made or published this film? and what year? I need it for my history paper. Thank you in advance!

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

Ditto, I'd like to know as well if anyone can find a reference. I don't think it's a #CoronetInstructionalFilm, I tried looking around under that, but maybe this KZbin title isn't the original title...

[@JRR0013]

David, this old-fashioned film is from the 1940's. The music, the appliances, the clothes, the shoes. The hairstyle was the give-away.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Dear J: You may be correct about the production date but it was run in the schools in the 1950s. I can assure you of that. That is where I collected it from. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@monascrafts7404]

The unattainable dream life for a lot of women now.

[@r-e_mii]

Difference is that now most men want this plus a career woman...and we dont wear heels.

[@keepthefaith1912]

My life- "Retired" home educator....grow at least 50-60% of our food..meat and veg.. keeper at home.

[@mantrapi1133]

Life was so daunting when it was just black and white.

[@powerfreshjennifer]

I would never clean house in heels that is just nuts. Wear your sneakers then 20 mins before your husband gets home doll yourself up he will never know you didn't clean the house in heels. These old movie just make me laugh.

[@bladdermuffin6841]

powerfreshJennifer or better yet, be a civilised person and dont wear any shoes at all

[@davidbrooksbank7444]

Both my mother and grandmother dressed like that for getting up to going to bed

[@briannaf8437]

I actually wouldn't mind this

[@henerygreen578]

they were our mothers wives daughters and loved a great deal.........

[@alexa7337]

My dream life.

[@JanieBee]

As a woman, of course I believe all women should have a choice in what they want to do with their life. For me personally I know I've always wanted to be a mother and housewife (among other things). The issue is finding a man who is deserving of my submission. But I guess it's also a good thing they're so hard to find because once you do you know you've done good 🌻

[@MortusSweet]

Thanks to 2nd wave feminism!

[@sharid76]

The general attitude of the day, once the boys came back from fighting WWII (and the women who served as well) was that all the ladies were now excused from the overwhelming tasks they took on during the war, freeing up men to fight and replacing those who had already left to do so. For many it had involved considerable training to work in fields like welding in shipyards and heavy manufacturing, which they devoted themselves to, and did very well. For others, less initial training may have been involved, but certainly no less devotion to their work. At War's end, it was Pink Slips all around to the ladies, and back to the kitchens and bedrooms with you! Propaganda had been heavily engaged by the powerful combination of the propaganda machines of Madison Avenue and the Government to get the women OUT of their homes and on the job, celebrating the working woman, praising and delighting in her efforts, and then exactly the opposite came around at the end of the War, to tell them that cooking, laundry, general housework and baby making were now their highest calling again. It was like being attached to a yoyo - go out! come back! As for it being sexist, yes, it was sexist. But that was the mindset of the previous occupants of bygone eras. So was racism, untreated alcoholism, domestic violence, child abuse, ethnocentricity, antisemitism, anti Catholicism, and just about every other form of bigotry and ignorance you can name. The cultural norm of the day for a vast majority of WASPs in this country. Look at how long it took AFTER WWII to legally desegregate the military, and to stop marking blood and plasma donations with the race of the donator. Or to give Army Nurses actual rather than "relative" rank, full veterans benefits and retirement; or how long it took to even treat male nurses the same as female nurses! Don't know? Look it up - Google is your friend! In any case, you can't judge the systems and thought processes of 70+ years ago based on 21st century morés and values. Did you know that being discovered to be gay in the Army was tantamount to a death sentence? It might as well have been. Once you were "outed" you were looking at things like prison in high security Army prisons like Leavenworth, for a LOOONG time, dishonorable discharge, which meant forfeiture of all pay, rank, veterans benefits, and pretty much the rest of your natural life. Because you didn't tell them up front at draft that you were gay, which would have loaded you up with all kinds of civilian hurts. No matter how careful and discrete you may have been before. So, yeah, there were a whole bunch of problems going on then, not just sexist attitudes.

[@ManticoreBe6955]

Literally all i could think of was why she is wearind shoes in the house, and heels at that😂

[@davidbrooksbank7444]

Why not?

[@هدي-ه8ظ]

Why not? She’s making her self look nice

[@dezbiggs6363]

@@هدي-ه8ظ cause you don't wear outside shoes in the house. It tracks everything you walked on outside in the house. Maybe she has house heels though

[@meaghanJJJ1]

Does anyone have a transcript for this clip?

[@inhisimage2822]

This is fantastic! :)

[@kyoumary150]

I thought I could finally see how a sewing machine works😓

[@Nicoleshomer]

This type of film content along with women's magazines at the time glorified this image on purpose to encourage women to ditch dreams of engaging in the outside world and conform to being a "woman", who's role was as a good mother and wife to their husband. Once women were married and became housewives, they were considered "successful" and a "true woman", who looked after the household and children, leaving the man to deal with the politics and affairs of the outside world. After the umpteenth year of routine and boredom, with no form of identity other than "pretty wife" or "good mother", housewives across America developed a "problem" that left them bored, depressed and anxious. They had no identity of self despite being the epitome of "feminine". When this unknown, un talked about "problem" began to rise nationwide, some women began to wonder about their life. What if they'd used their degree they'd acquired at university but never fulfilled because a "career girl" was considered unfeminine and undesirable to men (which meant never getting married). And a woman didn't properly exist if she wasn't married and bearing children. As their once educated minds began to find depression in the repetitive nature of cooking a hot dinner nightly or changing 3 children's sheets a few times a week, so the magazines and media that advertisers selling lipstick, detergent and clothing began their work - correlating the intelligence and diligence of jobs such of engineering etc. in the outside world, just as worthy and satisfying as vacuuming the carpet every morning. Thus continuing the legacy of the Housewife, keeping women out of the workforce, politics and from developing an sense of self based upon their own desires and dreams.

[@dezbiggs6363]

Or, you know, this is what some of our dreams are. It may not be right for everyone but it's right for some of us.

[@monascrafts7404]

I prefer the identity of “pretty wife” and “good mother” rather than “office slave”, and I’d rather do repetitive housework for myself and my family than do repetitive office work for some stranger.

[@rosco9048]

I think I want to be a feminist now.

[@PlancoandChill]

Where there's the needle running through the loop with thread running through the eye....

[@faucetmeaning6107]

WOW

[@johngray144]

"plenty of pep!"

[@shaunfrick2043]

If a man has a job and buy himself a house and a woman dose the same. Like my X. Than they'll both don't have a warm lovely home and no kids. Seeing how the home maker is as rare as a Unicorn nowadays.

[@upabovesobelow9502]

why in the hell are the walking around the house in heels, somebody give these ladies some flip flops plz!!!

[@davidbrooksbank7444]

Flip flops, yer real style, not. I suppose millions of Chinese peasants can't be wrong

[@PlancoandChill]

The actual thought was that a visitor might arrive at the home or husband may come home early. Or that a neighbor might see in through a window and see her with foot exposed like she was a gypsy on the side of a road selling trinkets. It was all about other peoples perceptions of you.

[@PlancoandChill]

Up until rather recently my grandmother got fully dressed including a nice shoe to clean and do house work. She said she just could not imagine someone coming to the house and catching her in stocking feet she would be mortified.

[@happydays9346]

time was just a ticking away now hey now.....

[@mikumikubeammmm]

I WAS TRYING TO FIND THE GHOST FANS IN THE COMMENTS 😭

[@matidorfman7773]

ooh ah.

[@indianapolisjones8045]

If they clean the house everyday, then how is it dirty all the time?, no hate tho, still love the bitches.

[@jadedavis822]

👍

[@janetcordo952]

Were women OK with seeing this stuff back then?

[@johnsmith-fk7fw]

+Celine Cordo they weren't retarded as they are now, so yes. Now the average obese western woman will tweet some hashtags about how they're offended about this, meanwhile doing no work but complaining the whole time. oh and dont forget the public schools to raise the children! lol westerners

[@janetcordo952]

john smith "average obese women" funny and true

[@Sam-tf9ip]

x I'm okay with seeing this now. I'm a woman and I understand that being a housewife can be so rewarding for some women including me.

[@happyjohn354]

@@Sam-tf9ip after finishing up 12 hours of hard manual labor being able to go home to a wife and home sounds nice... to bad ill never be able to afford that opportunity...

[@Livetoeat171]

Every sentence that man was saying sounded so sarcastic as if he was making fun of the women or anyone thinking that a woman works hard.

[@althea7942]

"The weaker sex".. How absurd they were back then. Makes me laugh

[@althea7942]

thomas kendrick Biologically they can be just as strong as men. But I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the independence and freedom that we have now, that we didn't back then.

[@MayorOfMoetown]

+Althea no, we cant be as strong as men.

[@nonamejoname6728]

Althea Did you live in that time period, Althea? Do you know what it was really like?

[@althea7942]

thomas kendrick ***** Because there are historical documents and interviews about what it was like back then. And yes, we can. We both can be physically fit and strong. I know loads of women who can beat the shit out of men.

[@nonamejoname6728]

Althea And i'm sure, as a feminist, would love to see that. We all know feminists hate men. I've seen interviews from women who lived in the 50s, and they described them as happy times. I'm sure they weren't great for everybody, though. However, i know better than to categorize the 50s as a terrible time for women, which they weren't.

[@hexpinteas]

This is very sexiest in both genders.

[@MayorOfMoetown]

+hexpinteas its just nature.

[@happyjohn354]

ya it would be nice to come home to a nice clean home with dinner ready when you just finished getting black lung for 12 hours...

[@PlancoandChill]

Your perception of things is the "woke" kind wich is less then say 30% of the entire current world and doesnt even cover 1% of world history. Everyone had a role to play and that role for most women was one where they took care of the house. They had a great joy in it most of the time. Unless someone told them they were oppressed. After my grandfather died my grandmother was bored horribly. She had no one left to take care of.

[@jennicase]

haha he's in drag

[@claire4266]

The narrator is so condescending oh my godddddddd

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

Can't understand sarcasm? He was proving a point on hard housewives work.