War and Gender In her article, “G.I. Jane Breaks the combat barrier,” Lizette Alvarez (2009) reports that military women are by no means inferior to men, but they been manacled by military policy. First, Alvarez shows that U.S. military women rarely join the combat in American before, but military women are showing their valor at combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Second, Alvarez states that women’s success must be quiet because this will contradict the policies set in place. Third, Alvarez posits that military women are indispensable in the Iraq and Afghanistan because women can do as much as men do, or even more than men do for cultural reasons.
This provides your essay with a clear, structured argument. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave women over 30 the vote, if they owned property or were married to a property owner. The major reason for women receiving the vote has been a fundamental source of debate amongst historians. Whilst traditional schools of thought argue that women’s work during WWI radically changed male ideas about their role in society with traditional historians such as Ray suggesting that giving women the vote in 1918 was almost a ‘thank you’ for their efforts, revisionist historians, however, find this analysis too simplistic. AJP Taylor, for example, argues that the war ‘smoothed the way for democracy’ and so there are other factors of significance, such as, suffrage campaign groups (WSPU & NUWSS) and growing equality with men.
The peaceful campaigning of the suffragists’ was a key factor in women receiving the vote. The suffragists’ started the whole route of women gaining the vote; they were the ever moving force behind the movement. However historian Martin Pugh suggests that “Suffragists would probably have done better to have made common cause with all unenfranchised men and women from the start and thereby they might have extended their appeal” because all men had not yet received the vote it was argued that women should not receive the franchise when it was not fully given to all men. However there were other contributing factors leading up to 1918 and women gaining the vote. They include the work of the suffragettes’ who caused chaos and grabbed the spotlight away from the suffragists’ after a group of women decided it was time to make a militant stand.
They already have been doing so for many years now, and have earned their place in the military. In fact, they do a better job than men in certain areas of expertise. Gender does not matter It does not matter who is wearing a military uniform as long as that person can perform all the tasks expected from a soldier. I support the point being made In the article that women should not join army because of three main reasons- a) physically weaker compared to men Yes, there is no denying this fact but as I already said as long as she is able to do the expected jobs, there is no valid argument to ask her to stand down. This fact states that under normal circumstances, a male is physically stronger compared to a female of same age and background.
I believe it would be harder to show a greater negative affect than a positive effect in this matter. In conclusion I believe that the glass ceiling is “a transparent barrier that kept women from rising above a level in the military. It applies to women as a group who are kept from advancing higher because they are women” (Glass Ceiling, The Military). Men and women are equal and must be treated as such. Women have proven themselves competent and qualified for tasks and jobs in the military even under stressful and dangerous conditions.
Name: Nguyen Khanh Nhat Student ID: S3343795 Group: 4 No women in combat Today, women are more respected in society than in the past. In the article “No women in combat” by Darren Graves in Union of Military Men, 2008 the author proposes the benefits of using men in combat and he gives the idea that women are not as strong as men both physically and mentally to fight in combat. This essay will critically respond to the article. First, the author gives the idea that women are not strong enough in mental health to survive in combat situation. In other word, the author means that the women are so coward to be suitable for battlefield.
The government decided to start a propaganda campaign to get women working to help with the war. They promoted “Rosie the Riveter” as the ideal woman worker: loyal, efficient, patriotic, and pretty. (Sorensen 3) The campaign was a success because the women stepped in to take the factory jobs that the men left behind when they went off to war. The women took jobs such as making ammunition, uniforms, and air planes. They were also doing jobs such as welding, riveting and engine repair.
Womens suffrage synthesis paper. Women have always been under suffrage from the superior male empowerment. they endure depression of rights such as voting and freedom of speech, the thought of women having such straightforward authority to do the bare bone basic in nationalistic movement of voting and cary an impact on our developed country is profound even today in the eyes of a man. people in general can ignore womens suffrage all they desire but it is sure to catch up to any who oppose it, the accusation that women ask to much of the present society almost as if they want more then they need, all together the men have stronger thought towards why women need to be relieved of there freedom. Women are always becoming more independent as time moves on, starting with only a few fighting for freedom to many thousands of women protesting for there rights.
Like coping papers and answering phones. The party didn’t want women who weren’t ready to fight for the cause. “Women began to hold formal leadership roles in the mid–1970s. Women had increased access to the reins of power because of the leadership vacuum created by the absence of key male Panther leaders, and because they had acquired an impressive array of political skills, honed in less visible roles.”1 The women never were treated with double standards. They were considered the heart of the community and they had to be respected for the fact that they brought the community to life.
If the thirty-seven million women of the United States should will not to go to war on a particular occasion, there should be no war." (Walker 31) this would have been very incentivizing for women, to assign that much power to them, if the author hadn't finished her sentence with " "since not all of us are given to thought." Many articles focus on how to be a great wife. One gave recommendations to women