The Oscar Mayer Ham Can For Women

"What makes a ham can for women a ham can for women? And why on God’s cured, salted earth was such a thing ever considered necessary?"


The Oscar Mayer ham can for women was part of a bigger push by US businesses to replace the lucrative government contracts of World War II with consumer spending. It was the job of Mad Men-era executives to convince US women (especially white, middle-class ones) that the purchase of modern consumer goods could make them better homemakers, better women, and better Americans.
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  1. This would make me want to buy this ham, said no woman ever.

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  2. Perhaps if it were pink....

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