The paper referred to prostitutes as sisters and Men were usually depicted as the wrongdoers. This was a concept unheard of in Ingraham’s society. Ingaham shed light on the fact that once a woman was violated and abandoned by a man, she became shunned by the community, lost all opportunities to be married to a “good man,” had few job prospects available to her, as well as had no legal recourse. The only job women could hold at the time was as sweat shop employees, where they would be paid extremely low wages, on which survival was difficult, especially if the women had to support her children. Ingraham felt this broken system had been pushing women onto the street and into prostitution.
John Jessee Professor Lehman American History II Iron Jawed Angles Iron Jawed Angels is a movie about women’s suffrage which follows the life of a couple individuals. One in particular is Alice Paul. She begins in England working on a project there for a women’s suffrage movement and comes back to the United States. They are part of a group called the National American Women Suffrage Association or NAWSA. The mission of the NAWSA was to fight for women’s rights and to also gain respect for all women in the United States.
gets laid off or cannot find work, cannot work due to poor health caused by the harsh conditions at industrial factories. She also observes that some of these out-of-work primary earners turn to organizing fellow workers to get better working conditions and more equitable compensation. When the husband cannot earn a living, the wife is forced to find work at industrial factories or other means of earning a living. i.e. sewing clothes, etc.
Many workers lost hearing from loud machinery, lost limbs in hazardous equipment, and even lost their life due to the apathy of factory owners. The pay for such jobs remained meager despite these risky conditions. The average blue collar employee received $3.50 an hour, barely enough to get by in society. To make matters worse, workers were forced to work long hours during the week, usually over ten hours a day for six to seven days a week. With such appalling conditions, industrial workers were forced into action.
Before the US invaded Iraq, Riverbend “[worked] in an Iraqi database/software company” where she “made as much money as [her] two male colleagues and [received] an equal amount of respect from [her] manager” (Riverbend 22). When she visited her company after the war, however, she was told that “females weren’t welcome [at the company]” anymore because they “‘couldn’t be protected’” (Riverbend 24). She was a woman, and thus the company did not want “to be responsible for what might happen to [her]” at work (Riverbend 24). Riverbend was no longer seen as an independent, self-sufficient individual, but rather as someone who needed to be protected and watched over. In response to this realization, Riverbend “cried bitterly all the way home,” which demonstrates how much she truly values her independence (Riverbend
Some women worked so long in the factories that they had to move closer to the factory. They got paid well, however men doing the same work as skilled women got paid more. That was not fair for the women. They struggled with discrimination, harassment, and physical pain from long hours and poor working conditions. Once the war was over and the men came home, the women had to give up their jobs and these hard-working women did not want to leave their jobs.
You can even buy a “Rosie the Riveter” action figure, complete with “We Can Do It!” emblazoned on the packaging. One retailer, giftapolis.com, enthuses, “Rosie the Riveter is no ordinary gal! Her image was used to promote the Women Ordinance Workers (WOWs) during World War II. Her confident declaration… inspired millions of women to drop their brooms and pick up
Before the war, women were treated equally in the workforce; they were paid equally and had equal job opportunities. Laura Bush made it seem like women were being oppressed saying, “Women cannot work outside the home…” and by grouping situations of the Middle East together false accusations were made. Riverbend blogs saying, “What I’m trying to say is that no matter *what* anyone heard, females in Iraq were a lot better off than females in other parts of the Arab world (and some parts of the western world-we had equal salaries!) We made up over 50% of the working force. We were doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, professors, deans, architects, programmers, and more” (August 2003, Riverbend, p.22).
Married women wanted smaller families, and divorce become easier, rising from a yearly average of 800 in 1910 to 8000 in 1939. Once women could vote, many people felt that they had gained full and equal rights. But there was still a long battle ahead for equal treatment and respect both at work and at home. The struggle for full women’s rights is one of the most important events in recent British
Thanks to not only these two influential and powerful women, but many more , women gained the confidence to stand up in what they 7) Believed they should earn in regards to the positions the aquire and their wages and basic right for maternity leave. for instance : Nurses went on strike over their low pay and poor working conditions, How 8) Ever through strike action nurses’ mad big gains with 75 % pay increase and 100% rise for matrons. This also included equal pay was being gained in most industries including those in which most workers were women. also to advise women 9) On their rights as workers, the working women’s centre with union and federal government backing was established in 1973. Due to this women made up 21 % of the work force and women wages was increases to 75% of 10) Male rate.