article_snippet: Dr Polly Russell told today's This Morning that in the Fifties, only 20 per cent of women worked, leaving the majority of wives to spend the majority of wives time cooking, cleaning and managing the majority of wives households.
article_snippet: Housewives had to feed the family with limited rations .
article_snippet: Mary Berry told presenters Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden: 'We have this idea of the Fifties being a domestic ideal - Mad Men, glamorous -  this was not the case in Britain, We were still in rationing, very austere. '
article_snippet: so housewives had to feed the family with these limited rations. '
article_snippet: It's not surprising housewives became fed-up in the Fifties - surprising housewives spent 75 hours a week doing housework.' '
highlights_snippet: In Fifties, most women were at home but were limited by rationing .
  