The document describes typical gender roles in 1950s America, where women were expected to fulfill stereotypical housewife duties like cooking, baking, grocery shopping, and washing while staying at home to care for children, as epitomized by TV characters like June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver. This stereotype is challenged by feminist Betty Friedan, who wrote The Feminine Mystique fighting against the accepted gender roles of the 1950s housewife.