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women at home in the country
women raised money for war bonds.they collected blood rolled annotates aided in civil defense an tended victory gardens and hosted troops.women recycled scarce material sand they dealt
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women
In August 1940, only 7,000 women had joined the Womens Land Army but with the crisis caused by Hitler’s U-boats, a huge drive went on from this date on to get more women working on the land. Even Churchill feared that the chaos caused by the U-boats to our supplies from America would starve out Britain -
before the war
More than seven million women who had not been wage earners before the war joined eleven million women already in the American work force. Between 1941 and 1945, an untold number moved away from their hometowns to take advantage of wartime opportunities, but many more remained in place, organizing home front initiatives to conserve resources, to build morale, to raise funds, and to fill jobs left by men who entered military service. -
women want to keep there jobs after World War 1
After World War I some women returned to the place society had destined for them while others refused. They had learned new skills and was prepared to use them. The United States entered the World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and women power again was in demand. Their roles continued to change tremendously. By the spring of 1942 there was a growing manpower shortage in the military. -
womens roles during the war
Women’s work would be vital to the British war effort in World War and women were forced to work. Early in 1941, Ernest Benin, the Government Minister for Lab our, declared that, 'one million wives' were 'wanted for war work'. Later that year, in December 1941, women began to be conscripted for war work, when Parliament passed the National Service Act. Women would work in factories, farming, fly planes, served in the arm forces, building ships, making bullets, nurses and many other jobs. -
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women
During the fall of 1942, the Women’s Auxiliary Air Squadron became known as the Women’s Air Force, began training women pilots who flew planes to various military bases in the United States. They tested aircraft and performed other non-combat flight duties. Many women believed that they might never be allowed to serve in the military again if they did not prove to be capable in a chosen role. -
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women working
women were still considered to be secondary workers. women wages were not considered central to family's income instead it was thought that women's wages were for taxes such as holidays or new consumer durable s welfare pay meant for family were based on the assumption that a mans income to support there wife and children. -
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Equal pay
august 1951 issued of red tape the journal of the civil service clerical associations reports of mass meetings on equal pay in london. In june 1978 women machinists sat at Ford Motor Companies plant striking for equal pay. Women won a pay increase to 92% of mens pay. -
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marriage and pay
in the early 50s many employers still operated a marriage bar by then married women were brred from certain occupation like teaching and clerical fobs but lower paid jods and the working were sacked unmarried but thought that the 1950s and 60s it bc more common for married women to work -
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women help economic growth
the gains made during the second world war proved transitory as women were demobilized from thee work to make way for the retaining recurrences as had happen following the first war however unlike the 1920s the late 1940s and 50s were periods of sustained economic growth . in the late 1940s the government launch campaign to encourage women to stay or enter in the labor market and encourage the migration of workers.
