A wider range of jobs became available to them, they gained more independence and weren’t viewed as second citizens but most importantly, World War One lead to women in Britain gaining the vote. Before the First World War, The majority of women stayed at home and their priorities were looking after the family and the house. Women were seen as the property of their husband. The variety of women’s jobs was very narrow and most women had never had a proper job in their lives. 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.
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.
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.
They had ‘ pink collar jobs’ which were basically low paying jobs such as being secretaries, telephone operators, and sales clerks. By this time women were getting higher education so two or three generations would end up being college graduates. Although this was true only 25% of married women worked outside of home. Ideas had changed throughout time, such that women began relying on doctors, nurses and teachers instead of trusting their instinct. This created a greater sexual relationship between the wife and the husband.
Also, in 1920, abortion on demand became allowed. This though collided with the economic realities of life in the Soviet state. ( The difference between the socialist dream and the reality of childcare: As for the divorce laws, this created problems as men were the ones who mostly filed for divorce when the woman became pregnant and because of the housing shortage, divorced couples often still lived together thus commonly creating domestic violence. The government was not willing or able to fund enough domestic services. The reality of childcare was that there was no network of socialist kindergartens but “life in gangs that survived by begging, scrounging, stealing and prostitution”.
For example: the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. World War II, probably made the biggest impact on the women’s movement. When men were drafted to go to war the women had the opportunity to fill the men’s jobs while overseas. The United States Department of Labor stated that the number of women employed for selected cities in 1944- 1945 in all industries were 1,266,200. Which in turn the women inherited a sense of independence and security.
As the military continues to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq, we continue to hear of single parents that failed to deploy because of childcare. The family care plan was created to prevent this problem. Family care plans were not mandatory until after Desert Storm/Shield. At that time, many single and dual military parents were not ready to deploy because of childcare. They were allotted time to find proper childcare, causing problems in the movement of soldiers overseas.
In a western society that continuous to renounce communalism and embrace individualism, it is easily noticed that the problems faced by few are ignored by the many. This ignorance, intentional or not, is allowing communal problems to accelerate the pace. However, the issue at hand is one that affects you whether or not you are aware of it; if you are an American, or in any western society for that matter. It affects nearly twenty percent of the under eighteen population in the United States and costs taxpayers on average 14 billion dollars per year. As a Parent, it can tack $19,000 onto the total of raising each child.
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.
This meant that women were being treated more equally but they still weren’t being treated exactly the same as their male counterparts because they were only earning 60 to 65% of what men doing the same job earned. Another change that occurred in the lives of women because of Stalin’s social policies is that 41% of the industrial workers in Russia were women. This then meant that women could do their part, within industry, to help Russia to become industrialised while Stalin got more workers to produce the raw materials that he wanted. Due to the fact that women were working in industry, they were included in the Stakhanovite movement which meant that they were rewarded for their efforts and were inclined to doing more work to get more rewards. As a result of this, they had an incentive to keep working and their living conditions improved slightly.