Women take factory jobs to save for a home (1961) | RetroFocus

According to these working women, one wage wasn't enough to buy a home in 1961. A reporter asked what effect their jobs had on their marriage and children.
For more from ABC News, click here: www.abc.net.au/news/
Subscribe to us on KZbin: ab.co/1svxLVE
You can also like us on Facebook: / abcnews.au
Or follow us on Instagram: / abcnews_au
Or even on Twitter: / abcnews

[@TTBOn00bKiLleR]

now we both work and still come short

[@LordOfNoobstown]

there actually is a great deal of evidence that introducing women into the workforce correlates highly with living quality and economic prosperity in a country

[@tastycookiechip]

@@LordOfNoobstown except now kids are tossed off to daycare to be raised by strangers rather than their actual parents.

[@Lily-sy5gz]

@@LordOfNoobstown depends on the country

[@naomiwilliams8850]

We now need 3 incomes for a comfortable life.

[@elliea595]

@@naomiwilliams8850 yeah the kids must work too now haha

[@wonteatit]

I'd love it as a hard of hearing person if there were captions added for these videos.

[@gssci]

I shouldn't do free advertising for Google, but Pixel phones have system wide auto-captioning that work like magic, I'm using it because I can't understand the accent very well

[@spjr99]

@@gssci i second this guys comment

[@anneb889]

When I touch the screen a CC button does come up. Maybe that didn’t 3 yrs ago?

[@chelskate17]

I love the old Aussie accent!

[@jonquilcat7945]

it's not the accent per se, it's the audio recording quality :-)

[@HoLeeSheet117]

@@jonquilcat7945 not really, definitely the accent.

[@chardsnake]

God bless women

[@drowningin]

If god wanted to bless women, why did he give them painful child birth? I believe there's only one other mammal that has painful child births

[@charlieschurk]

mushy all mammals give birth the same way it isn’t just humans

[@voguehaven5154]

@@drowningin all mammals have painful births. Its a part of life.

[@forestrot666]

Curious to hear these interviews in other countries at the time.

[@birds8529]

i just LOVE these woman

[@markc65]

Thanks for uploading these.

[@maryallison0509]

Because of women like these a mother isn’t tied to being at home. And made to be satisfied cooking cleaning and taking care of her husband and children. My parents were married in 1958. And my mom worked full time since she met dad then until she started showing she was pregnant. She was put on maternity leave. Then when she returned back to work she worked opposite shifts to my dad. So they didn’t need to pay for sitters. My dad spent even time taking care of his kids and doing cooking and cleaning. Yeah equal responsibility

[@misterPerez11]

Yo this really wasn't that long ago

[@Lily-sy5gz]

50 years ago

[@hazeleyeslis]

@@Lily-sy5gz 60

[@midnightsherry4794]

before we were born

[@greatsisyphus7712]

These KZbinrs really have a particular style. I like it.

[@blueycarlton]

The reporter I believe is Michael Charlton who went to England and worked for along time for the BBC, Panorama programme? He has already cultivated a pommy type accent. It's so different from his brother Tony who worked on TV in Melbourne for a long time at Channel 9.

[@chardsnake]

Reading these comments let me know that Australians are more paranoid about the Chinese than america is about Russian or middle-eastern invasion.

[@kenyacwilson]

Did anyone notice the microphone?

[@ericastier1646]

People were defintively more happy in 1960's. You can hear it in how they speak.

[@Donato93]

How times have changed.

[@tamarawilson9642]

Women.....we have come a far way

[@farihaahmed4790]

Man i wish women like that existed today.

[@riisuba]

I wish we spoke like this today. The accent and choice of words is just beautiful. Compared to the Karens that we have now

[@ooDirtyMickoo]

Everyone read back then. Language has declined.

[@nutellabootycakes]

@@ooDirtyMickoo that’s a bit biased, don’t you think?

[@ooDirtyMickoo]

@@nutellabootycakes maybe. Biased in what way?

[@nutellabootycakes]

@@ooDirtyMickoo I would say that “Language has declined” is heavily opinionated since it’s definitely up for debate. I would like to see evidence for your claim though. I’m openminded to it

[@peterwyman1082]

I find these so fascinating...currently on a 60's British population opinions bender. KZbin am I right?

[@marcuswatts7215]

We really need to be more traditional, families were far stronger back then Marriages lasted and compromises were made for the family.

[@malorie8557]

Agreed. We have had our fun, we experienced, we delved in the pleasures (some more than others) but it's not sustainable. We need to bring back commitment and healthy homes.

[@rowandawson9750]

By compromises, do you mean the men take care of money and the women do the housework and watch the children? I honestly think "traditional" family's had all the problems that modern ones do, but with less autonomy

[@JennyH-yr1hj]

Marriages lasted because it was harder to leave them and there was less freedom for a woman to live without a domestic sphere

[@ljm4418]

@@JennyH-yr1hj Yes it's weird to hear people say people were happier back in a time when getting a divorce was so taboo, or even before that when it was barely legal. People have more freedom now and people change!

[@Lily-sy5gz]

Dude the reason marriages lasted longer is because it was less socially acceptable to have a divorce and very hard so if the husband and wife didn't get along they were pretty much stuck

[@rickmarx5495]

Where's the Blacks???? 😂😂😂

[@HenryDube72]

...in Australia? Or you mean the aboriginals?

[@HenryDube72]

@Good Enough they were civilised in their own way I reckon

[@JennyH-yr1hj]

@Good Enough who's to say that aboriginals didn't have an 'advanced' social life and culture. Not for anyone to judge

[@NotThatUser]

Good Enough Civilised is the European way of spelling Civilized. It’s like colorized vs. colorised or humor vs. humour

[@lucdesprets8057]

@@NotThatUser Belgium prefers the American way of spelling things. We're very much European...... We are the Capital of Europe to be exact!!!!!!

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

1961 was better, our country was better

[@s.tagerius2514]

Maybe in some respects, but we've come a long way since then.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

@@s.tagerius2514 yes, well australia was, I'm from kaliningrad

[@s.tagerius2514]

@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца I'm from the UK (England).

[@newagemedia7082]

I agree Australia was better back then

[@s.tagerius2514]

@Hello, Sidney! I mean as a species.