Leisure for women in 1956

Speaking of pepper, here’s an image of leisure for women in 1956, fifty years ago. This editorial cartoon from the Daily Herald in 1956 proposes the easy life for women.

Get dinner ready, cook four things at once AND roast a cornish game hen in the portable roaster, in the kitchen. Sit back, relax, enjoy your cup of coffee, or tea, or Sanka, in the kitchen. Look up! Enjoy your favorite programs on television, Milton Berle or Ernie Kovacs, in the kitchen. Why? Because it’s as easy as pushing buttons.

As long as the leisure happens in the same place as work!

(This really requires a much longer post on the relationship between women and technology, especially as depicted in advertising, but it won’t be today. Until then, enjoy these other ads in the history of the button.)