Do you think that the life of a typical suburban homemaking during the 1950s was fulfilling or not?

I tend to agree with the perspective of Betty Friedan on this question.

Betty Friedan was an early leader of the feminist movement in the United States.  Her important book, published in 1963, argued that women in America in the 1950s and early 1960s had an unfulfilling way of life.  They were told that fulfillment and happiness as a woman came from being a wife, mother, homemaker.  But her own studies showed that women were  hungering for something else.  They needed an identity of their own, not just from relation to husband, home and children. 
You might want to see a bit more I said on this subject in response to someone else's question.  Read more on - link

Where people were very broke no jobs were available and everyone was struggling