Daily Mail inform us that the '50s' weren't a golden age for women

• May 1, 2012
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This attitude is thanks largely to the popular TV series Mad Men — set as that supposedly golden age came to a close — with its sexy secretaries wiggling in their tight dresses, lantern- jawed men and Martinis galore.

Although, if you actually watch Mad Men, it hardly portrays the life of women during that era as being special. Joan who, inevitably, they’ve plastered all over the article was raped by her husband in the office. He is a controlling, vicious bastard of a husband, never there to help and yet expects to make all decisions about their life by himself. Indeed an image they’ve included is one of the most tense, difficult scenes in the new series.

Female characters are held back from the success they deserve, unless they choose to marry their way to the top. Few have careers that compare with the men, despite often being much more talented. The men themselves are chauvinist, ignorant, venal idiots with the odd exception, and the workplace is regularly portrayed as being horrendous.

I wonder what show the writer has been watching.