'Keep her where she belongs...': The sexist Sixties adverts that would provoke fury today as women speak out against sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal (7 Pics)
It was a time when sexist attitudes were perfectly acceptable.
These are some of the appalling adverts for household names that were common place in the Sixties - and they would surely cause howls of protest if they were released today.
They have re-emerged online as millions of women around the world come forward to speak out against sexual harassment following the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
Demeaning: This advert for Van Heusen ties, left, boasts that their manly patterns 'will tell her it's a man's world... and make her so happy it is'.
Meanwhile Lipton claims that a poor tea-making skills are grounds for a divorce, right
Brains or beauty? Palmolive soap promised their product would give women skin 'more precious than a personality
Downtrodden: The advertising profession, centred on Madison Avenue, New York in the 1960s was a male-dominated profession which produced adverts like this for female consumers
A load of hot air: This advert from 1969 claimed women enjoy having smoke blown into their faces and doing so will increase a man's attractiveness
This advert plays on the old trope that a woman's place is in the home and not on a mountain
'Keep her where she belongs...': The sexist Sixties adverts that would provoke fury today as women speak out against sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal (7 Pics)
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