The Greatest Generation

Not only did more avoid war, but Silents built their careers and families during the longest economic expansion in American history during the postwar era.

It was not the first time that motherhood provided the female version of civic virtue.

trends that the Boomers began accelerated through the next three generations. If you’re considering your Gen X parents, your Millennial boss, or your Gen Z college student and asking, How did we get here? you have to look back to 1946, when it all started with a boom.

stressed the need for young women to cultivate good looks, personality, and cheerful subservience.

However, Boomers would make the changes for women real on a large scale, living the lives their Greatest and Silent forebears fought for.