Different opportunities, confidence and skill level, now allowed many women to start getting paid. Women’s roles in World War II were even more important than in World War I. By the end of World War II, more than 2.2 million women were working building ships, aircraft, and vehicles. They also worked in war industries. (Women).
During the war, asso many men were involved in fighting, countless women had a job whether it was working in a munition factory, driving an ambulance or working for the transport of London. This in its self was a major change. For over 1.5 million women, they were working for the very first time. Many argue that this change only lasted throughout the war and that afterwards there was mainly just continuity from what life was like before the war. Women went back to working at home and jobs were taken over by men again.
Almost all jobs men did before they left to fight in the war were now a women’s job. All these jobs were a drastic change from their usual routine of cooking, cleaning and being “baby makers”, though women still got paid less than half of what men were getting paid doing these jobs. Women all across Canada started to realize that there might be something more for them in their future. Since women were doing so much for the war effort, they wanted a share in making decisions about their country. This is when women first began to work for political equality with men.
Women were expected to be dutiful helpmates to their husbands. Their primary tasks were concerned with child-bearing and standard housewife chores. Most women married in their early twenties and give birth to an average of 6 to 7 children within a range of 20 years. As the size of farms shrank in long-settled communities, families chose to have fewer children. After 1750 women in a typical village bore an average of 4 children in one lifetime.
In other words one out of every three women had job in labour force. (http://humanresources.about.com/od/worklifebalance/a/business_women.htm, Susan M. Heathfield). There were even advertisements portraying women in workplace. Women were invited to work force during the era of baby boom through posters and TV advertisements. This was probably one of the biggest reasons that women started working.
Women took on jobs that were traditionally regarded as skilled men's work. However, women undertaking jobs during the war lost their jobs at the end of the World War I. ========================================= In World War I, for example, thousands of women worked in munitions factories, offices and large hangars used to build aircraft. [1] Of course women were also
Essay on the changing role of women as a consequence of WW1 Before 1914 Many women stopped at home and worked by doing the washing, sewing, and looking after their families, which were the normal activities of a housewife. Before WW1 just over half of all single women and one in seven married women worked outside the home to make money. The men were the breadwinners of the family, and were basically the boss; this was the way the hierarchy in the family was before 1914. Women in paid work weren’t treated the same as the male workers. There was a lot of sexist employers as most of them thought a ‘women’s place’ was in the home.
Through her students, Mother Teresa met many family’s and learned about their poor medical care. Many families of her students had very little of no income. Disease had attacked the head of their households and left them with very little. Thousands of people died each year due to the lack of medical care then and now. Poverty grew and Mother Teresa knew she had to do something more.
Women who weren’t married worked in cotton and woolen mills and often took refuge in company boarding houses which consisted of six women in one room, two women to a bed. They had simple jobs which was two dollars every two weeks with 12 to 16 hour days. A woman with a better education got an extra dollar a week for teaching. Lucy Stone for example, she is the founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She became a teacher at the age of 16 and slowly saved money she earned which was one dollar a week.
They started taking positions that were originally reserved for men. More than seven million women entered the work force whereby two million women went to the heavy industry. However, these women lacked formal workplace rights. Women then and today still face inequality when it comes to aspects of pay and opportunities. Women get lower starting salaries, and are not paid the same as men for the same work.