Women in the Workforce At the onset of WW2, women typically did not work unless they were from the lower classes. But when WW2 started, men left to fight in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. So, women entered the workforce in droves. The War Manpower Commission recruited women into employ...
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female centered religions, minute mentions of women's participation in political affairs, and so forth. Historians of women's past have sought information about birth rates, about women's status and rights, about spheres where women exercised power, about areas where women's work was distinct fro...
There are some nice details of how the preparations for a trial work. It also shows how juries may be influenced by what's going on around them. The series wants to be a kind of thriller but the ending is already signposted in advance and it's not a happy one. The series does ...
Do you know if working-class women from the UK worked in Hong Kong before WWII or during the war? I have conducted some preliminary research which says that British women did work as nannies and cooks at mainly ex pat homes in Hong Kong. I do know that more educated women were employed...
At the start there was little time for specialized training. New recruits, many of whom had fathers or brothers serving in the RAF, were appointed to jobs as close as possible to their civilian employments. Girls with good shorthand skills would work as station clerks, cooks went as cooks,...
After WW2, with the onset of the Cold War, by virtue of an Anglo-Australian Joint Venture, Australia became a centre for scientific research into rockets and long-range weapons (including Britain's atomic warheads) testing. By the mid 1950s a new outback town - Woomera had been created ...
POSTING FOR SHARON ROOTS: Just tried to leave a comment on the blog and it keeps coming back error. I was trying to add Silver Wings by HP Munro for this square. It’s set mostly in WW2 and has made me cry. A great read. Just finished it. I’m now going to try some of those...
WAVES: Women in the WW2 US Navy Main article Photos Photo Size 740 x 594 pixels Photos on Same Day 30 Oct 1942 Added By C. Peter Chen Licensing Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: The vast majority of the digital images in the Archival Research ...
In 1915, Carrie Chapman Catt took over as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She revitalized the organization and made the choice to support the war effort in 1917. The women’s war work of the NAWSA turned them into much more visible symbols of nationalism, which...