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Seneca Falls Convention
Formulated the demand for women's suffrage in the United States of America and after the American Civil War (1861–1865) agitation for the cause became more prominent. -
1861-1865 Civil War
In the South and in the North too, women made bandages for the wounded and knit socks to keep the soldiers' feet warm and dry. Women worked to manufacture arms, ammunition, uniforms, and other supplies for the soldiers. -
Who are you?
Womens could have been teachers or secretarys. but the most common job for a woman was being a housewife or being a stay at home mom....which are pretty much the same thing. -
Jobs they acquired
I've perused the census for genealogy research and have found washer woman, laundress, seamstress, cutting hair, cook, maid, hotel keeper, keeping shop, saloon girl, waitress, librarian teacher, and secretary. -
Women role's in WW1
Women played a vital role in the First World War, performing their 'traditional' tasks such as nursing, while making deep inroads into other industries like munitions production and transport. And, of course, some women fought. -
Women did this in WW2
As American pilots, some female, went overseas to fight, directly or indirectly, in WW2 in Britain and China, many began to see that should the United States enter the war, the demand for pilots would increase dramatically. -
Women's jobs
In the US over 30,000 worked in the military, mostly in nursing corps, US Army Signal Corps and as naval and marine yeoman. In contrast, women worked a vast variety of positions supporting the French military, but a distinction was made by the government which refused to recognise their contribution as military service. -
Why the women started to work
As men left their old work to fill the need for soldiers – and millions of men were moved away by the main belligerents – women were able, indeed needed, to take their place in the work force. -
Percentile rate
There are approximately 32,000 women in the U.S. military, comprising about 13 percent of the total U.S. Armed Forces (Defense Almanac 1995). -
Why women shouldnt be in the military
a female U.S. Coast Guardsman was the whistleblower for the several rapes in the United States Coast Guard and the four other military branches. She started a military rape crisis center, which has pushed for stricter laws to protect sexual assault victims -
Contradiction
women are sometimes not counted as equals in the military because of their physical endurance. women are usually weaker than men -
Contrast to men
Many view the exclusion of women from military combat jobs as the last bastion of sex discrimination. Some believe that women are forbidden to serve in these roles only as a result of the traditionalist view of soldiering as a profession for men and that the equal opportunity laws should apply to the military.
