The Women of ‘The View’ Show Times Have Changed for the Better

As “The View” moves towards its 20th anniversary on air next year, the show’s hosts have been left in no doubt why the all-female talk show has not been around for decades longer.

Women’s opinions, on television or elsewhere, were not always so welcome – as a segment on Friday’s show demonstrated.

The team debated a viral article from the 1950s that gave women of the time tips on how to be good wives to their husbands.

READ MORE: Busy Candace Cameron Bure Quits ‘The View’: ‘I Tried to Be Superwoman’

One of its main recommendations was to speak quietly with soft voices, a description that doesn’t particularly match the panel of the outspoken ladies of “The View.” Indeed, Joy Behar responded, “Don’t ask me to speak in a low voice!”

Other suggestions of things that 1950s women should do for their husbands were, “Make sure to fix him a drink when he comes home [and] give him a comfortable chair,” as well as “Don’t greet him with problems or complaints” and “Touch up your makeup when he gets home, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking.”

Candace Cameron Bure admitted she had read out the same article at events and it always garnered a lot of laughs each time. But she did agree with the problems and complaints suggestion, saying, “It is nice to create a peaceful home for your husband or wife.”

Jedediah Bila said that she thinks this outdated list was written for the men of the time but men and their attitudes have changed a lot since the 1950s. “I think guys have evolved,” she says. “I think they like a little feisty and I think that there is a component of men that does like the care-taker element but I think they want you to do it as you.”

READ MORE: Sia and Erik Anders Lang Join List of Heartbreaking Celebrity Splits