The world of post-World War II America saw the flourishing of the economy and suburban expansion, which in turn brought G.I.s back in the work force and pushed American women from their wartime jobs back into the home. Wartime scarcity juxtaposed with the cornucopia of household goods available post-war, as well as the advent of new homemaking technology, were some of the reasons a societal ideal of the economical, creative, and supportive (to her husband and family) American homemaker was made. According to scholar Judith A. Freeman, "[a]dvertisers constantly told each other about various characteristics of women's personalities so as to maintain a generic definition acceptable to all." This image of this ideal homemaker was particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s, and a variety of food brands used this ideal to advertise to female consumers. The persuasiveness of American advertising on the American female homemaker "[promoted] idealistic standards of behavior, the attainment of which were unreachable goals. This...was so effective that men and women look[ed] to advertising for personal definition. The ideal that the commercial media presented to the American woman fostered a perpetual dissatisfaction with her personal reality which, in turn, encouraged the need to consume - and this was exactly what advertisers intended."