PDF-(EBOOK)-Women and War Work

Excerpt from Women and War WorkAn unsolicited testimonial this of the most genuine kind The College students of today are not easily coaxed into lecture rooms outside of their own classes I believe that Miss Frasers book will be read with the same eager attention that followed her first speeches in this country as She began her work of educating American women to a sense of what the mobilization of the entire citizen army of a democracy must mean. VSc 3557 3557 4150 4150 4481 4481 4440 4440 3464 3464 3586 3586 AGRI 6586 6586 8525 8525 5784 5784 7552 7552 6053 6053 7390 7390 HORT 8793 8793 9512 9512 8206 8206 8955 8955 7672 7672 8523 8523 HORT PAY 9609 10557 8411 8350 6133 8710 CABM 9706 9706 (and how to ameliorate them) . By Estelle James. Prepared for the World Bank, . June 2010. Many old age security rules are based on traditional social norms. Traditional norms—women married young, had children, stopped work, husbands supported them, divorce rare. Old age systems perpetuated this norm. . Aim . To explain the main reasons behind women gaining the vote in 1918. Background. In the 19. th. century, the general view regarding women was that they were second class citizens, physically, mentally and inferior to men and therefore incapable of voting.. Lesson Aim: . To . assess. the . true. impact of WWII on women. . TASK:. Mini whiteboards: Think back to the video yesterday – in less than 15 words sum-up the view of women and women’s war work given in the film . Image submitted by Margaret . Groome. to Doncaster 1914-18.. 1. . 1. WOMEN WORKING WAS NOT NECESSARILY NEW. Some women did work before the First World War. . Women worked in factories, as housemaids in large houses, in shops and lots of other places in Doncaster.. World war one started in 1914 World war one ended in1919. The trenches. The trenches were half full of mud and water, unfortunately before them were the French, who buried their dead soldiers in the bottom and sides of the trenches, everywhere they went to dig another trench there were dead bodies and the smell was atrocious.. The campaign for women’s suffrage in Wales and England before 1918.. Prevailing social ideas – 29% in workforce 1890 , 55% single women work outside home 1. st. laid off work domestic servants , caring.. A movement in three waves and many parts. The way it was…. At the turn of the century, women were seen as capable only of domestic work.. At . this . time, women were considered private property to be purchased in marriage.. Introduction Stuff. . A Small Handful of White Guys did NOT wake up one morning and think, . “Hey, we should have an American Revolution and throw the British . out of N. America.. No one was an American Yet.. the Americans did have just cause for a war with the British. War of 1812. The Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) . British adopted policies that angered the Americans. Napoleon ordered a blockade (the Berlin Decree) to cripple British trade by closing French controlled ports to British ships.. Rationing. Many products were in short supply. Metal had to be used to make tanks and battleships. Medicine was needed on the battlefields. Imports were hard to get from other countries at war; especially rubber for tires because it came from SE Asia. Political Advantage. Changing . attitudes to women in society. :. . the women’s suffrage campaigns. ;. . the militant Suffragette campaign up to 1914. ;. . the part played by women in the war effort, 1914–18. Women could divorce their husbands for cruelty, desertion and bigamy.. Women could keep their own property, and leave their husbands home. . Wife-battering and marital rape were legal.. Couldn’t divorce their husbands for adultery.. not occur overnight Despite the reinforcement of the domestic ideal women aspired to continue working after the post-war era This reveals what might be the dominant paradox connecting the cultural d