First slide In the beginning of 1933, which is shortly after when Hitler came to power, he made a ‘Law for the Encouragement of Marriage’ It was the policy for the government to provide all newly married couples a loan of 1000 marks. All women were expected to have 4 children by the age of 35. If this was not followed, she would have to fill up the number of children to 4, by racially pure Aryn German men. After four children have been produced, she would have to send her husband free to ferment other German women. This showed that the Nazis viewed that the only job of the women was to produce as many children as possible in order to grow its empire.
IN the early part of her marriage she tried to stay true to the Confucian gender code of women in her house. She said “A women could not go out of the court we women knew nothing but to comb our hair and bind our feet and wait at home for our men.” (Pruitt, p. 55) As time went on she decided to go out and find work to support herself and her children. She worked until her youngest son was married, which was typical Confucian family. Ning followed the Confucian beliefs on a primary duty of women saying “It is the destiny of woman and her happiness to carry on the life stream.” (Pruitt, p. 153) Ning did not follow the rules regarding women
The women of the early 20th century helped by filling in the jobs that men used, volunteering as nurses, and giving hope to the soldiers to fight back with. Women completely stabilized all the jobs that were left by the men. Around 1 to 2 million women joined the workforce during the war, such as in governmental jobs, in public transport, in the post office, in business clerks and
For well-off southern white women who stayed at home during the war, there was a lot of responsibility to take on. They had to keep the rich businesses of their husbands who went off to the war. According to Maddie Dwyer, “With their husbands being the wealthiest of society (planters or business owners), they had a lot of responsibility to take over once they were Gone.” (Dwyer 2). This quote explains that they had to play the role of the mother and father proving that women are obviously capable of doing what
Women Civil Rights 1865-1992 Key : Black = random facts, red = presidents, orange = congress, yellow = Supreme Court, lime = individuals, green = groups, blue = war, indigo = economy, purple = riots/protests/strikes. 1865-1914 1900 4 million children worked in industry or coalmines 1907 – 30 states had abolished child labour Civil War – unmarried women worked as nurses, some went to HE but men opposed it 1870 – 13% of unmarried women worked domestically or in factories. 1900 this trebled – they made up 17% of the workforce. Married women remained at home 1890s – women who graduated could get office jobs due to invention of typewriter and telephone, could earn up to $7 a week 1900 – 949,000 women worked as teachers, secretaries, librarians
In 1947 when women were asked whether married women should return home, 58% said that women should return to their domestic duties. Overall, there were short term changes in social attitudes towards women workers but there was little lasting change. Rationing was introduced in 1939 to make sure that everyone had the same amount of food and that the rich could not buy all of it, leaving the working classes to starve. It was seen as a necessary and fair precaution to stop Britain being starved out by the Germans. Rationing changed many social attitudes because
The cultural division of labor by sex was going to come to an end. Before the war, mostly every woman was at home cleaning cooking, and caring for children. That all changed when America went to war. The government decided to do a propaganda campaign to sell the importance of war effort and to lure women in. Thus, Rosie the Riveter was born.
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.
I also studied mathematics, philosophy, religion, and statistics and became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society. I believed that God was calling me for a career in nursing, and when I was 31-years old, my family reluctantly agreed to my being trained as a nurse. Nurses in Britain at that time were seen as being in a lowly profession, comprised mainly of uneducated, working class girls, who were often depicted as drunk, debauched, and in hospitals that were unfit for ladies (Whyte, 2010). Nevertheless, in 1851, I went to Germany to the Deaconess Institute in Kaiserswerth, where I trained as a nurse for three months. I worked for a year as the head of the Institute for the Care of Sick Gentle Women on Harley Street in London.
Feminist writes Betty Friedan “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.” “...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.” “When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.” “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Naomi Woolf “Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to