<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
Can you tell me why women had a low workforce participation in 1950's America?
<|assistant|>
One of the primary reasons why women had a low workforce participation in the 1950's in America was due to societal pressures and expectations that women should be primarily domestic in their role. Social norms encouraged women to remain in the home and raise children, rather than pursue paid employment, as it was widely expected that this would be the primary role that women would take on throughout their life. This also was a product of a wider cultural trend at the time to downplay the value of working as an actively discouraged form of labor as women were largely seen as subordinate to their roles in the home.