However, an event that helped shape the future was the lives of women. For hundreds of years, women were down-graded and not deemed important. But, from the year 1914, the importance of women gradually kept increasing, resulting in women gaining new jobs, new responsibilities and a respectful place in society. In this essay, I will analyse five selected sources and determine whether the lives of women on the Home Front were greatly affected by the First World War. Firstly, employment for women throughout the war had a drastic improvement; many jobs became available for women to choose from.
Interview Women’s Voting in: America Thesis: Today in society women play a large role in not only the economy, but also have created a large impact on the decisions to better the United States as a whole. The fight for women’s suffrage resulted in a very positive and life changing outcome for many Americans. However, the journey leading to this change in our society was brutally challenging. It took many years of determined activists and reformers to fight for this equality. There was no proven fact women were incapable of completing tasks that men could, women have always had the same ability as men.
The Famous Five: Helping Women Socially Economically and Politically There are unlimited names of famous Canadian Leaders who have worked to help Canada become a better place. From Prime Ministers like Lester B Pearson or Pierre Trudeau to average people like Terry fox. The famous five however accomplished more things for the women in Canada than any other Canadian. Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, and Nellie McClung with the persons case helped Canadian women on a social economic and political level. Up until 1929 (Evans), the legal term for “person” did not apply to women according to the Canadian Constitution.
Before 1914, only a few countries had given the right to vote to women, and apart from these countries women were little involved in the political process. More than any previous wars, World Wars I hinged as much on industrial production as it did on battlefield clashes. With millions of men away fighting and with the inevitable horrendous casualties, there was a severe shortage of labor in a range of industries, from rural and farm work to city office jobs. During World War I, women were called on, by necessity, to do work and to take on roles that were outside their traditional gender expectations. Women took on jobs that were traditionally regarded as skilled men's work.
After the Second World War, there definitely was a long lasting effect on the role of women in Canadian society. You all know that women are being treated a lot better than they were back in the First and Second World War compared to the women society today, well in this paper I will be proving this, but mainly focusing on the Second World War. During the First World War, it brought many good changes to the lives of Canadian women. We began to see women becoming more recognized and important not just in Canada, but around the world. They began to take up jobs that would be considered unsuitable for women before 1914, such as working in munitions factories and other war industries.
Women went back to working at home and jobs were taken over by men again. They say that World War One did very little to change the position of women in Britain. The truth is that World War One did change the lives of women but the extent was limited and their role in society was never the same as it had been before 1914. It is important to remember that if it wasn’t for their protest and demonstration before, women’s rights wouldn’t have been on the agenda of the government and change would have taken much longer. With so many young men enlisted in the army, the role women played was crucial, not only to the war
The historical debate surrounding this topic is wether women’s lives really did change greatly after the two world wars, or wether their lives simply went back to the way they were before the war started. This essay will discuss women’s participation during the two world wars, the gaining of the vote, women in the workplace after the wars, their role in society and how it changed and eventually, coming to the conclusion that women’s lives did not change to a great extent, and that it was all a result of changing times in society. Women’s participation during the two world wars was greatly appreciated. The great war came to be seen as a great opportunity for women, however, when war first broke out, the war was seen a threat to women’s position1. There was a massive disruption of the industries in which women were mostly employed, such as dress-making and textiles.
Today ten countries (more if we include prime ministers, and heads of state) have elected females as their heads of government. They have proven to be competent and successful – and in a society where they should not need to prove anything. It is no doubt that the roles of women in society are becoming increasingly important. In less developed countries (LDCs) women are succeeding men as their country's leaders. Three notable leaders of the world are: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (the Philippines), Michelle Bachelet (Chile), and Pratibha Patil (India).
This is still only 29.1% of total lawyers but a major change has occurred, resulting in more equality for women. During this period of time, more than 281,965 women chose a career that had been dominated by men. Insurance adjustors, examiners, and investigators started out at a higher percentage of the workforce being women with 37,387 women out of 109,000 total workers in 1972. However, by 2003 226,575 of 265,000 insurance adjustors, examiners, and investigators were women. Women have taken over this profession.
Brianna Saccurato Professor Dittmar 790:335:01 March 5, 2014 Paper 1: Women’s Political Influence In the past 200 years Women have become a force to be reckoned with within the political arena. In the past decade alone women have turned out more votes, made advancements in leadership positions, increased involvement in political debates and also society as a whole. Without the help of our ancestors through their protest and fight for the women’s right to vote women of our generation would not have the voice to choose who represents them on a local, state, and federal level. Although women’s influence in politics is not as strong as the men of our nation, the United States has shown over time how the political role and influence of women has evolved and is becoming more powerful. At the start of the twentieth century women were subjected to widespread discrimination that ousted them from all aspects of political life and treated them as if they were second class citizens.