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The roles women were allowed and expected to fill were greatly altered with the occurrence of the first and second world wars. It was out of necessity that women entered the workforce in droves both here in Canada and abroad, with men being dispatched in record numbers to the battlefields of Europe to bring victory home, women were expected to contribute to the war effort through filling the positions left behind. This meant that the female work force which had been primarily segregated to sewing clothing and scrubbing floors now had the responsibility of building bombs and making bullets.

“During the war about half of American women worked outside of their homes,”( Hughes 2). The number of working women rose from fourteen point six million in nineteen forty one to nineteen point four million in nineteen forty four. “Women were not just motivated by wages or patriotism; but buy the feeling of independence that they gained from the work,” (Hughes 2). Without women laborers the US economy would have never been able to produce military hardware to be successful in the war. Even though women played a huge role in the work force during the World War II, they also played an even bigger role in the war itself. Women played several different roles in the actual war. “A few of women’s roles in the actual war of World War II would be army nurses, spies, pilots and entertainers,” (Scott3). Women served as army nurses during World War 11, there were than seven thousand active nurses on duty when the United States entered the war. “Women also served as pilots, on September tenth nineteen forty two, Nancy Harkness Love, with the support of th U.S. Air Transport Command, organized twenty five women pilots into the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (W.A.F.S),” (Scott3). Women pilots were used to serve non- combat flights, to free the men for combat flights. “Women spies of the World WarII , they were often successful and unsuspected since people suspected women that women’s properly roles were solely domestic,” (Scott3). Lastly

Women’s roles change during World War II because men were gone and their responsibilities weren’t being taken care of. The women began working and doing the men’s house chores for them along with their own responsibilities has women(Graves 1-2). The women were the only people who could take the mens places and money was tight. Women were needed to get work done because it

One of the most important roles that women played, were the increasing large amount of female soldiers fighting in the war. These roles gave women the right to work and serve in armed forces. The jobs that women took part in during this time period made a huge difference in the war, and in turn, WW2 helped expand women’s

Women wanted to be able to do more in the war. They tried to find ways to work

Throughout, the history of the United States, there has been many different events that helped change and shape the America known today. One particular event that has had a great significance was the Second World War. The war came as a salvation to the United States because it helped liberate it from the Great Depression. However, one gender population, during this time, had the opportunity to demonstrate their potential. This gender population was women. WWII was not only a life changing event for all men in America, but also for women because it would become the first time in history when they begin to break the stereotypes between gender roles.

This investigation will attempt to answer the question: “To what extent did the two major woman’s contributions in World War II, the WAACS and nurses, undergird the women fighting for equal rights achieve their goals of economic and social independence in the job force, during the years following WWII?” This research question will allow for exploration on women involvement in the war and how involvement affected woman’s independence in the United States. This investigation will analyze women rights and war involvement from 1939 to 1964 when title VII was passed.

When the war started, women had to take over the jobs of men and they learned to be independent. These women exemplified the beginning of change. Coupled with enfranchisement and the increased popularity of birth control, women experienced a new

These women handled so much more than was expected of women of that time and generation. Wendy also explained how the women reacted to so many injustices that occurred during these hardships, and still went to pave the road for the women of today. The argument of this article is that women had to deal with the same heinous events that the men had to handle and more that occurred with the war while maintaining there modesty. Despite the readers now not experiencing or seeing the noted horrible condition and repercussion's of the war this article to my opinion is well credible. I was truly educated by the writings of the women of

In 1942 the United States was a shortage of pilots so women were trained to fly military aircraft so men can be released for combat duty overseas. Women can fight the controls of a B-17 in heavy weather as well as men. More than 1,100 young women are all civilian volunteers. Women use were train to shoot a air gunner with live ammunition. The WASP expected to

In the years after the Second World War, people created uncountable numbers of historiographical research on various topics related to the war, such as military tactics in battles, individual groups of men during their time in service, and other such subjects. Not much surprise exists then, that women’s actions in World War II eventually would also gain interest and publication for the public, though it did not gain an undivided focus until the advent of women’s and social history grew momentum. Women, despite being half of the world’s population, doubtlessly had acted during the war years, although limited by social gender expectations of the period. As time passes from 1945, more interest in the lives of women and their effect on the war

In the paragraph it says that” Thousands of women in the North and South joined volunteer brigades and signed up to work as nurses. It was the first time in American history that women played a significant role in a war effort. By the end of the war, these experiences had expanded many Americans’ definitions of “true womanhood (www.history.com).” During the civil war more women wanted to take more action in the war. There was more than 400 women who dressed like guys so they can fight in the war and get more involved. “Nearly 20,000 women worked more directly for the Union war effort. Working-class white women and free and enslaved African-American women worked as laundresses, cooks and “matrons,” and some 3,000 middle-class white women worked as nurses.” Army nurses had to travel from hospital to hospital just to heal the men and women who fought in the civil war. “ During the Civil War, women especially faced a host of new duties and responsibilities. “For the most part, these new roles applied the ideals of Victorian domesticity to “useful and patriotic ends.” However, these wartime contributions did help expand many women’s ideas about what their “proper place” should be.” The civil war gave the women more freedom after the 400 and more women dressed as guys to fight. If we didn’t

Ever since then women proved that they can work in a man’s workplace and do just as well. Any job that was a man’s, was a women’s as well. Women were soon “the most needed workers of all” according to Brenda Ralf Lewis. Factory workers became known as “the soldiers without guns”. If women hadn’t stepped up to the line, winning the war wouldn’t have been as easy as it was for us. Not only did the women in factories and shipyards have a big part in doing their part in the war contributions, but so did the women who were out on the field fighting alongside with their men risking their very life.

The topic of valuation of early-stage companies, patents, and technologies have been a topic of study since the late 1980’s. Since the work published by Amit et al (1990) a body of management science literature was published around the value relevance of non-financial information that quantifies the human capital of the founding team. Amit et al posit that

ONTENTS Chapter Title Page DECLARATION………………………………………….. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………………………………. Iii QUOTATION……………………………………………... iv ABSTRACT …………………………………………….... v TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………. vi-xii LIST OF TABLES………………………………………… xiii LIST OF FIGURES……………………………………….. xiv ABBREVIATIONS………………………………………… xv Section I: Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION………………………………………… 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY……………………… 1.1.1 Introduction……………………………………………….. 1.1.2 Importance of the Study……………………………….... 1.1.3 Potential benefits of the Study………………………….. 1.2 RESEARCH PROBLEM, OBJECTIVES ANDSTRUCTURE…………………………………………….. 1.2.1 The Research Problem………………………………….. 1.2.2 Parameters