Timeline: The Women's Movement

During the World War II era, the outlook on the role of women in Australian society revolutionised. As a majority of men were at war, Australian women were encouraged to rise above and beyond their stereotypical ‘housewife’ status. They were required to take on the tasks that were once considered predominantly male roles, and also allowed the opportunity to join the armed services as well as enlist in the Women’s Land Army. Many women who doubted their abilities played their part by entering voluntary work. Women had the privilege of contributing in Australian society in many ways that they had never been able before. Thus, it is manifest that the role of women in Australian society had drastically changed.

Many people still thought that a woman's place was "in the kitchen", this changed shortly after the second world war. 500,000 women joined the workforce post WW1 because all of the men had gone to war. This set Australia up and benefited from more people with a wider experience in many jobs.

The wartime jobs produced lasting careers and life-style changes for women. Some of the jobs they did were telephone operators, factory workers, seamstresses, and physicians. Most of the women that were hired for these jobs were young and unmarried because they had fewer obligations to attend. This meant, they could work long hours with little pay since they did not have a family to provide for. It was

Australian society had changed a lot because of the women’s movement. Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s and the start of the ‘90s a lot of women were put into male jobs. These jobs were in the areas of education, law, health work, and welfare. This greatly affected the imbalance between both men and women in power and opportunity. Women gradually started to gain access to areas of power that previously been off limits. Some women attempted to use their new found power for the benefit of women in

The experiences of Australian women in both World War 1 and World War 2 were similar but also different. WWI was fought from 1914 to 1918, and WW2 was fought from 1939 to 1945. These were the biggest military conflicts in the history of man. The main areas of change in Australian women around these times were employment, roles and positions in the war, and the attitudes towards women at these times. In WW1, the main occupation for Australian women was nursing. In World War 2, however, women were given the opportunity to do ‘a man’s job’ for the first time.

The importance of woman and there role and contribution  to Australia has not always been the same as it is now in the present. In the 1800s woman were not involved in participating in writing a vote for a prime minister and state leaders of their choice and they were also not allowed to join a parliament house and become a leader. The goals of Vida Goldstein and Rose Scott were to have equal rights of men and women in all needs of life like parliament, some of these woman are called feminists (people that want equality of sexes).

Due to WWI, the supply of men had severely decreased, thus, it was the woman's responsibility to replace them in society and the workplace. Women replaced men in factories and other occupations. Approximately one million women were brought into the labor force through the course of the war. An example of a new job for women was a truck driver or a worker in the railroad industry. Women had no

For many years, women weren't seen as world leaders or seen as important, they were seen as paraphernalia for the living of men, living in a sexist world, they would only do the cooking, cleaning and all of the other “women” jobs. Women in Australia wanted a change and they were willing to risk everything for their rights, especially their rights to vote. Men were in control of things such as divorce, equal pay and could basically make women do whatever they pleased. Women were simply seen as useless, un-needed and their opinions were not valid during this time. Of course women were allowed to work

After the Pearl Harbor bombing, and the start of WWII, most men in the U.S. recruited to war, leaving behind many important factory and hard labor jobs. That lead to a desperate need to fill the vacant positions that men left. The only people left to fill them were woman. Many woman took on the challenge and went to work in the factories.

During these times, World War I and II were current and it encouraged and gave women the opportunity to enter the workforce to support the war effort. The women loved the idea of becoming patriotic and serving their country. As the men were preparing to home from the war, many of the women left the work force so that there were jobs

The outbreak of the war prompted the formation of numerous women’s voluntary organizations, and a number of women worked to extend women’s role. In 1942 defense ministers and others finally considered to form WAAC to substitute men in the army. The bill took a year to pass. The WAAC only lasted until 1943 because of the newly founded group WAC. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps benefited women’s rights, how women got to be accepted in society , and most importantly what the women did to help make the country stronger.

Millions of women before 1914 had taken over jobs that men had already stereotypically done. For example, some women had newer occupations such as typists, telephonists and shop workers. A small number of women were already attending university and entering careers such as medicine and teaching. The war just accelerated this. The concept of the war, meant that women were needed, both in larger numbers and also new kinds of work.

The measure of ladies in steel, hardware, shipbuilding, flying machine, and auto production lines likewise dropped. From 1.7 million ladies at work in 1944, those commercial enterprises had just occupation positions for 580,000 ladies in 1947 (Campbell, p.72). This uncommon drop in the measure of ladies in the work power happened in light of the fact that the war had finished. The U.S. didn't keep every one of the industrial facilities, that were utilized to assemble wartime machines and hardware, open. Along these lines, the high pay and new choices that had brought ladies into the work power, had vanished. World War II's effect on ladies can be taken a gander at as positive and after that as negative. Yes ladies entered the work power and essentially led it for around five years, and were likewise the rescuers for the U.S. Airforce, it might be said. Be that as it may, with whatever they did, particularly in the armed force, ladies got enough acknowledgment and were likewise advised to leave the armed force and the manufacturing plant all

More specifically, the role of women in society changed. While men were away at war, women often took over business operations. In fact, by 1918, nearly three million women were employed in the textile, food, and war industries. Many restrictions on women’s participation in these industries were torn down during World War 1. Women slowly started gaining more social responsibilities. They started working as streetcar conductors and radio operators; they also worked in logging camps and steel mills. During the war, they not only had to support their households, but also the war effort. After the war, their labor was far from over. It was now more socially acceptable to continue working. In addition, many men died in the war and women had to work single-handedly to support their family.

This began to change in the First World War (1914-1918), largely due to a large number of women being called to take the jobs of men who had gone off to fight in the war. Even then, there was widespread resistance, because people believed it to be a man’s job. Due to the manpower demands of fighting in World War I, however, there was no alternative and women began to work in munitions factories and other industrial workplaces contributing to the war effort, apart from also as ticket collectors, railway guards, bus drivers, and others. In the United States, following the return of male soldiers from World War I, the workplaces conceded to women for the two years the U.S. participated was taken over once more by women. Women's’ place in the American workforce was consolidated in World War II where, when soldiers returned, women fought to keep