This revisionist view of the 50's is itself as revisionist view, and one that dangerously ignore the first half of the 20th century. What system that benefited white men? WWI killed a whole bunch of them, before universal suffrage existed (that's right, all men were able to vote ONLY when all women were allowed to), then the Great Depression came along, and no social safety net existed for anybody. Three of my four grandparents lost everything in the Depression, my grandmother wore a potato sack for clothes and nearly starved. And then the ten years before the '50's were spent fighting another World War that killed millions.  Only after the carnage, pain, destruction and death of the first 50 years that *everyone* suffered through, do we see, in the post-WWII world the sort of benefits that started to apply to all men, instead of only a handful of very rich, powerful and connected men at the very top enjoyed... within twenty years, these benefits were legislated to all.