New industries, naval, and army bases were being built during the home front. Women played a huge role in this because if they didn’t stay home and take over for the men, they wouldn’t have the money to raise their families. “Only one in nine of the 45,000 women who signed up were selected for duty overseas” (Suite101) so a large percentage of women stayed back home. The National Selective Service controlled the women and men. They would only make the decisions for them “who could join up and who could not, where they could work, and when they could change jobs.” (Thecanadianencyclopedia) It was a tough life, but it was the only way to support their husbands when their off to war.
From being house-wives, slaves to men, care takers, maids, cooks, mothers, to having to be all that and work, maintain a household, pay bills, and bring home money. Women are expected to go to work then go home, and while at home from a long day of work do all the house chores, which basically is a 24/7 job minus the pay. The definition society has painted on femininity has changed; as we go into a new era society expects more and more from women. In the early 19th century women were almost considered slaves to men, they were to stay home cook, clean, and do anything and everything her husband demanded. That has evolved dramatically, societies view on women is not only that women must be the care takers of the family, but they are also expected
In the early 19th century before the outbreak of World War 1, very few women were granted with the opportunity of having a working career. The working women had low profile jobs and mostly worked as domestic servants. Many of the women that worked were young and single and this was seen as an advantage as it meant that they were most suitable for these types of jobs which would provide them with skills and experience that would be beneficial to them in their future lives (house wives). The middle class women worked in factories and were mostly unmarried. They worked in textile mills and sweated trades (hat and dress making).
The Depression hit women, like other minority groups in American society, similarly harsh because of that payrolls of many communities and private companies were open only to males. The main role of women during the Great Depression was that of the homemaker. Some women had gone through college level education and, like their male counterparts, were having a difficult time of finding employment. Those with families had the task of keeping their family together, as the traditional view of motherhood role, when the principle moneymaker of the family was out of work. However, some women joined the work force and would do jobs that men previously had held.
For example, women now go out to work, just as men now help with housework and childcare. However Feminists reject the ‘March of Progress’ theory, and argue that women remain unequal within the family. Anne Oakley argues that we still live in a patriarchal (male dominated) society, and therefore women occupy a subordinate and dependant role within the family and wider society. In addition in Mary Boulton’s research backed this, she found that fewer than 20% of husbands had a majority role in childcare. Overall it could therefore be argued that rather than partners becoming more equal, women now have to carry a ‘dual burden’, whereby she is responsible for two jobs of unpaid or paid labour.
128 Bellamy) As he describes how women’s life was dictated in the hands of men. At this time women were able to get an education but not just any woman, a woman of money as for a man also. A woman may work but once she is to be married all ties to work are cut and she is to become his wife. Which leaves her to do housework, bear, and nurse children for the rest of her
Abigail Adams was one of the first women to question male superiority and the importance of laws for women which ultimately led to establishment of Women’s Rights. For women in America life in the early 18th century was associated with domestic activities. They were required to take care of household and raise the children while men were expected to support family with food and other common needs in order to survive. Even women who belonged to the upper class and had maids to help around the house were still expected to stay at home and be by the side of their husbands when necessary. Marriages were usually based on economic partnership and cultural believes.
Moving Forward Michelle Oliveira HIS 204 George Aleman 10/19/2012 For centuries in America women were thought to be inadequate to that of men. Women were in charge of the cooking, the cleaning, raising children among other less than appealing tasks. Still today, many of these views have not completely changed from our society, but in the United States during the twentieth century, many of the roles that Americans had become familiar with began to change radically. Women wanted equality and fought for it not only at home but in the work place, in education and the military and in other areas as well. During the nineteenth century, when the Women’s Movement was beginning, many schools were established
They didn’t even gain the right to vote until the 1920’s. They have always been looked at as the inferior sex in almost all categories. They were the ones who were supposed to stay home and watch over the children while the husbands got jobs and worked out in the real world making a difference. This was the societal standard even into the mid to late 1980’s. However, when the 1990’s began a lot of feminist movements began that spoke out to the fact that women should have more of a role in society than just to cook and clean.
Women were once only seen in homes cleaning and cooking and the era of Rosie was the first step in women’s rights. Though at the end of the war men returned to their old factory jobs forcing women out of their maculating jobs, they showed women as a whole that they could do the same thing men could. While women did not end up reentering the work force until the 1970’s they were not in such high demand at this time either