Two women by the names of Constance Bowman and Clara Marie Allen told the story of what went on daily while they worked at the bomber plant. A couple of questions needed to be answered though. What does Slacks and Calluses reveal about social class in lives of women? Does Slacks and Calluses support the idea that the country eagerly embraced the idea of women leaving the home to work in factories for war production? Did the women in the factories work there out of a sense of patriotism, or because they lacked other opportunities?
My essay explains the life of women in the second world war women , women played a vital part in this country’s success in World War Two. Women were recruited by many different organisations some examples are WLA womens land army, WVS Women's Voluntary Service , ATS The Auxiliary Territorial Service, WAAF Women's Auxiliary Air Force, SOE Special Operations Executive. As you can see there were a lot of organisatiions that were a part of ww2 as you read on I will tell you more about each organisation and how they helped I will also tell you about entertainment and about the evacution process and about the factory work. The Evacuation: process was the most important so children and people would not get injured.Young mothers with young children
Introduction In the American civil war, thousands of women were involved as volunteer nurses in different military hospitals and the battle field. Although social taboos prohibited women from working outside their homes, women sought direct and convention involvement in the civil war. They focused on participating in the national struggle and pursuing career opportunities in the military rather than the traditionally confined domestic support roles. Women nurses experienced the detrimental and depressing constants of the civil war, such disease, as mutilated bodies, amputated limbs as well as death. In addition, they offered invaluable aid to the wounded and sick soldiers as well as medical authorities.
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 of all color, during World War II, were able to have tons of freedom expansion and were able to create a new place in society for themselves. When the males of the families had to leave overseas to fight in the military, women were expected to take over the male jobs in factories and perform work other than household duties. These duties in the factories consisted of making munitions and war supplies. Women not only did jobs meant for men in factories, they also performed jobs outside of the factories. According to Sarah Killngsworth, “The war started and jobs kinda opened up for women that men had.
Her graduate medical thesis was titled The Eye and Its Appendages.Afterwards Cole interned at Elizabeth Blackwell's New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. Cole went on to practice in South Carolina, then returned to Philadelphia, and in 1873 opened a Women's Directory Center to provide medical and legal services to destitute women and children. In January 1899, she was appointed superintendent of a home, run by the Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children in Washington, D.C.. The annual report for that year stated that she possessed "all the qualities essential to such a position-ability, energy, experience, tact." A subsequent report noted that:
Until July 1943 where the army general authorized a formal 4 week training program for newly signed nurses, the program stressed: field sanitation, defense against air, chemical, and machine attacks. From July 1943 to September 1945 about 27,000 graduated from 15 training centers (bellafaire) quite a mark up from the beginning bombs at Pearl Harbor. After all this the government decided they had enough nurses in the army to stop recruiting so they did just that, then a later quota came out saying they were short of nurses and of course, critics said that nurses were avoiding their military duties, a collapse of the Red Cross recruiting networks was partially to blame. In January 1945 the president, F.D.R at the time issued a state of addressing saying that there was a great shortage of army nurses and medical units in Europe, he proposed a bill that was going to pass but Germany
They served as Red Cross Ambulance drivers in France and Belgium carrying wounded soldiers between trains from the western front to hospitals. Also women served as nurses in the “Canadian Army Medical Corps” also known as C.A.M.C. [1] Women didn’t only have a role out at the front, but also back home, in Canada. With so many men serving overseas, women had a new role to play in wartime Canada. They contributed by knitting warm clothing and making bandages for distribution by the military.
With all of the men fighting in the war many women were employed in fields that were not generally accepted as “women’s work”. Many of these jobs ranged from trade jobs to volunteering as nurses in VA hospitals, but possible the biggest mark that women made were in the munitions factories. This undoubtedly solidified the quest for women’s rights nearly thirty years earlier. The U.S. Army created a
Nursing was a popular occupation for many women during the Civil War. At least 3,000 women held apid nursing postions in the North and South, and thousands of others worked as volunteers. "The war is certainly ours as well as men's" said Kate Cummings, of Mobile, Alabama, who became the matron of a large Confederate hospital. Authorities were wary of putting young girls in intimate contact with bedridden soldiers. Dorothea Dix, when she became superintendent of Union nurses, set a minimum age of thirty for her volunteers and demanded that they be "plain looking women" As the war went on and theneed for medical assistance became more desperate, Dix ignored her own regulations.