The picture above is from a 60s board game called “What Shall I Be?” In those days little girls needed to start thinking about their possible careers early, because there were only six options open to them other than Housewife: Ballerina, Actress, Airline Hostess, Teacher, Model, and Nurse.

 

In the books below, Secretary and Fashion Designer have been added to the Womanly Careers named above. In a typical Career Girl Romance of this era, the heroine bravely goes it alone without male protection — until, of course, the super-duper alpha wolf happens along, and then her spunkiness wilts, and she decides she’ll be safer married.

 

 

 

 

It’s probably harder for today’s female nurse to snare a doctor husband than it used to be, because she no longer wears one of those fetching caps, nor a girdle and tight-fitting dress.