Ground Control To Major Tom

I was thinking about how in those old movies the women were never really employed. They had little hobbies and whatnot, but they never really DID anything..you know, sign of the times, and all that. But wouldn't it be funny to still try and play that dreamy, lounging, bonbon-eating, lying in vain, damsel-in-distress female role all while still maintaining some job like, oh I dunno, say ASTRONAUT? It's an alien concept. Yes, I said alien. Maybe that's why she only has four fingers.