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the role of women was to be the homemaker. the tv and magazine encouraged women to stay at home and create a domestic haven for the family using new appliances to make it easier. Electric stoves, refrigerators, toasters and kettles revolutionised the kitchen, and vacuum cleaners and washing machines shaved hours off time spent cleaning
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manufacturers found out that because their making there new products with high quality, and those products would last for decades, there was no point to buy the same product again, only just once. so the manufacturers made the same product but with lower qaulity, so the product would were out and the product would be bought again, thus making profit
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it was esential that the Australian household owned a variety of home appliances for daily living
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microwave ovens didn't get so much popularity until the 1980's. and the reason it started to become popular all of a suddon, was because of the trend in food and that women started to work. so the microwave revolutionised the decade because it could defrost, cook or reheat yesterdays food. other appliances that became popular were the blender and the food processor
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by now, the only thing that could be achieved was the energy effiecency of the home appliances. as well that the home appliances wasn't changed much, only more environmentally healthy