IntroductionIn this article, I study the correlation between family income and an individual's gender, as well as their position on feminism. I expect that women who lived in higher-income families would be more likely to support feminism than lower-income individuals of either gender, because they would have more time and resources to support feminism. equality of women. While lower-class women were busy performing the traditional duties of a housewife, upper-class women had the privilege of hiring maids, cooks, and nannies to fulfill these duties for them. place, thus giving them more free time to participate in other social activities. My findings, gathered from the 1964 Disney production Mary Poppins and 1972 survey data, suggest that in general, a majority of women, particularly those who lived in the top 33 percentiles of the income bracket of American income, supported feminism. In general, men of all income levels were evenly divided on their stance on feminism. Interpretation As technology advanced and became more popular during the 1960s, film and television became more accessible to Americans. At that time, popular media generally depicted some sort of social norm present in society. A common stereotype at that time was that of living in a small nuclear family in which the father is the primary earner and the mother is the housewife who cooks, cleans, and cares for the children. In the 1964 Disney musical production Mary Poppins, the plot centers on this type of nuclear family. The patriarch of this family, George Banks, is a partner in a well-established bank, indicating that this family is in a high income bracket. Through this, the Banks family is able to...... middle of paper ...... income, which falls "in between" in their stance in support of equal rights for women and men.ConclusionAs popular social media outlets, such as Mary Poppins, and the ANES survey data in Figures 1 and 2 show, my hypothesis that women – particularly those in the top 33 percentile of family income – were more likely to support equal rights between men and women is partly correct. While it is true that women in the top 33 percentile of family income were more likely to support feminism than men in that income bracket, women in the bottom 67 percentile of family income were less likely to support feminism than men of this income bracket. As Mary Poppins shows, this relationship may have been caused by the combination of both the free time women had during their days and the willingness of men to abandon their position of superiority over women..