The word "Mum" came from mens slang in the early 19th Century. Men used to call there wifes morons, because they sat around the house doing nothing, there slang word for morons was mum!
Womens Roles in the 1950's
"Any time we girls have to go to work the reult, historically, is that we do things better than the oppisite sex. I mean gentlemen will go to all the trouble of keeping office hours and holding Board Meetings and getting Mr Gallup to make a poll, and sending their Public Relations agents to Washington, in order to reach a decision which any blonde could reach while was refurbishing her lipstick " Anita Loos, 'Decline and Fall of Blondes' Vogue 1951
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