II.An Overall Improvement in the Conditions of Women's Lives The middle-class women were well educated. but they were often told that there were no jobs for them. They felt lonely and bored in their homes in the suburbs as full-time wives and mothers. II. An Overall Improvement in the Conditions of Women’s Lives The middle-class women were well educated, but they were often told that there were no jobs for them. They felt lonely and bored in their homes in the suburbs as full-time wives and mothers