pic analysis women

1. Who are the people in the photograph?
1. A family of women from the 1950’s
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
that tells you this.
1. The appliances being used look like ones that would be used during that time period.
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
1. The message is that during this time women did all the cooking and the connection between the
women in the kitchen was very close.
Why is this photograph important to history?
1. To show how technology has improved in the kitchen and to show sexist values during that time.
What questions does this photograph raise?
1. Where are the men? What else did the women do at this time? Why aren’t there men in the
kitchen?
Write your own caption for the photograph:
1. Women in the Kitchen
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
1. Research more about women of the ‘50s and the kitchen appliances during that time period
Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph
1- The women are cooking and working together
2- Women during this time were the only ones who cooked
3- Men were never in the kitchen doing any work.