Women entering the workforce had difficulty finding a satisfactory job without references or an education.[36] However, opportunities for higher education expanded as women were admitted to all male schools like the U.S. Military Academics and Ivy League strongholds.[37] Education became a way for society to shape women into its ideal housewife, in the 1950s authorities and educators encouraged college because they found new value in vocational training for domesticity.[38] College prepared women for future roles, while men and women were taught together they were groomed for different paths after they graduated.[39] Education started out as a way to teach women how to be a good wife, but it also allowed them to broaden their minds because of it women earned better jobs and salaries.
Being educated was an expectation for women entering the paying workforce even though male equivalents did not need a high school diploma.[40] While in college a woman would experience extracurricular activities like a sorority that offered a separate space for the woman to practice types of social service work that was expected from her.[41]
Not all of a woman's education was done in the classroom, but rather among their peers through "dating." No longer did men and women have to be supervised when alone together. Dating allowed men and women to practice the paired activities that would later become a way of life.[41]