These women were not always treated as queens or equals. At the end of the 19th century, after losing the war, men” . . . they imagined Southern white women as paragons of virtue or purity that required them to defend them” (Goldfield p. 477). Therefore these men saw their women as inferior and weak and even after women took on certain roles in society, "most Americans in 1900 believed that a woman's proper role was to take care of the home and family" (Goldfield p. 501). This actually proves that women should not have the right to earn their own money; instead, they should spend all their time doing things for their family and home. Meanwhile, “women's suffrage . . . it seemed to challenge the natural order of society, and generated much opposition not only among men but also among traditionally minded women” (Goldfield p. 592). The odds seemed to favor all those who opposed women in society even in the 1950s, but “the pressures of young marriages, large families, and economic needs interacted to erode some of the underlying assumptions of the idealized family and laid the foundation for dramatic social changes in the world”. 1960 and 1970” (Goldfield p. 785). This, however, was officially the turning point for women in the workforce and in