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Women were respected for not pursuing their own careers or ambitions. For those with enough privilege, a woman’s place was ensuring that a strong family unit would mean a strong, united society. The postwar ideals of domesticity, the nuclear family, and the white middle-class woman who stayed at home dominated American thought until the mid-1960s. When Sylvia Plath graduated from Smith College in 1955, her commencement speaker, Adlai Stevenson, praised the female graduates and pronounced the purpose of their education was so they could be entertaining and well-informed wives when their husbands returned home from work. In 1950s America, women were not supposed to be ambitious.