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- - - - women
        
        75% of all women were married , average age of marriage was 21, most women deterred from working in favour of a family.
        
        lived dominated by domestic chores and looking after the family, a strong belief that working mothers would have a negative impact on a child's upbringing
        
        54% of households had a washing machine and 58% had a fridge , the government payment of family allowance kapt mothers at home
        
        mortgages and bank accounts would be in the mans name, trade unions also discouraged women from working due to labour competition for men.
      - notting hill riots, 1958
    - - by 1958,21000 commonwealth citizens had located to Britain , 75% were men supporting their family's back home.
      - many people moved to Australia or north America, in the 1950s 1.32m British people migrated
- - - - anthony eden became the prime minister in the 1955 election , the suez crisis of 1956 was his downfall
- - - - the treaty of Rome created the EEC in 1957 and was dominated by Germany and France
        
        1961 Macmillan submitted an application to join but didn't want to ruin the special relationship between Britain and America, they were rejected
        
        why britan didnt join the EEC
        
        maintaining the special relationship with USA
        
        felt they were a world power and too good to be amoung the european powers
        
        Britain was a victor in the war, unlike some of the European countrys
        
        the right preferred a relationship with the commonwealth
        
        left were suspicious of the capitalist nature of the organisation
        
        not popular among leading politicins