Some women “felt they were needed at home to raise families, crops for food and to fill the jobs that the men had vacated in order to serve their country.”(Suite101) Women’s lives on the home front during World War II were a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Once the men went off to war and left their jobs, the women that were single had a great advantage because job opportunities were everywhere. In the other hand married women had a tough time, especially if they had children. Hundreds of women worked in machine shops, welding shops, manufacturing plants, and also worked in war industries to make equipment for the war. New industries, naval, and army bases were being built during the home front.
Women in early societies lived to reproduced and continue the blood line, mostly striving for male babies. People in society in some ways believed that god wanted life to run as women as the follower or to be inferior. Women through the years pushed to work and for education and over time laws were granted to allow this for women. The people saw a need for more workers with more jobs now available. The turn of women’s rights has gradually changed so much that women and men are pretty much considered equal in most of the
However, the reader is exposed to the harsh, brutal truth of the lower-class society. Because George Wilson is a poor servant that has had little to eat in several days, we can not help but have sympathy for him. The upper-class is stuck up and oblivious to the needs and cares of their servants. However, those servants help with and take care of the needs of the other servants. While Wilson is on his way to see Mr. Carson, we learn that he is very hungry and hasn’t eaten in days.
The only things women were “good for” was taking care of their children and husband. Women has many obligations and very few choices, it was a women’s obligation to take care of her family as well as, clean, cook, sew, knit, and basically do anything and everything her husband asked or demanded. Women were more salves than actual wives. They were owned by men, whether it was her father, brothers, cousins, and/or husbands, they were viewed more as property than actual humans. Girls had to learn this life style at a very early age, if their mothers were busy gathering food; the daughter was to maintain the household.
“Am I now going to become less sensitive.”(29) Before his transformations the slightest cut to his finger brought him the worst pain. But now he can hardly feel his wounds. His no longer likes fresh food. He finds himself enjoying the taste of rotten old food instead. He now feels anxious in his open room and feels the need to find a safe place where he can hide.
(chapter 2, pg 145) Note: my page numbers probably don't match your but the chapter will Point: Steinbeck’s use of the character of Curley’s Wife is the only female character in the novella. Steinbeck uses different ways to show the importance of Curley’s wife. Evidence: No characters in the novella care for Curley’s Wife and very little attention is given to her. However many of the men only see her as an object. I think Steinbeck conveys that idea by his description of her.
Men on the other hand had the freedom to freely express themselves by way of literature, which is seen in the works of various authors of this time period. The lack of women authors during this time period leads us to believe that women, for the most part, were limited to domestic duties that were to keep the household running smoothly. Anne Bradstreet on the other hand defied the average norms of a woman’s role in colonial America and voiced her mind by way of literature. In the early Virginian colony, Captain John Smith boasted, “He, who does not work, will not eat.” This shows that there was absolutely no room for slackers, and both men as well as women had to do their part to keep the society running as smooth as possible. The work required to sustain a family in the rather bleak environmental situations of the early colonies was demanding for all.
The Depression hit women, like other minority groups in American society, similarly harsh because of that payrolls of many communities and private companies were open only to males. The main role of women during the Great Depression was that of the homemaker. Some women had gone through college level education and, like their male counterparts, were having a difficult time of finding employment. Those with families had the task of keeping their family together, as the traditional view of motherhood role, when the principle moneymaker of the family was out of work. However, some women joined the work force and would do jobs that men previously had held.
If only parents did something of this sort now with their children, and then maybe it wouldn't be as hard to find jobs and have to get degrees for any good paying job. Teenage girls had a quite different training than of the boys. Girls were taught what a housewife should know when she gets married such as spinning, carding, sewing, and knitting. Girls mainly helped their mothers or mistress around the house with the chores they did. Did a woman have to know how to do all these things before she got married?
As factory jobs were established in much of Central and South America, women were able to leave the house to work in order to earn more money to support their families. Even then as women were providing for their families, they were often seen as neglectful of their duties, and looked down upon. Latinos generally support the idea of machismo, where they value over-masculine