World War II was the catalyst that changed the opportunities available to women and eventually the way they were regarded as a viable workforce. Suddenly women throughout the United States were pushing themselves to their limits to support the war effort. Women were fulfilling jobs and responsibilit...
to find more labour to work full-time on the land, as Britain had to grow more of its own food, due to unrestricted submarine warfare, thus causing blockades. With the increasing number of men enlisting, the agricultural jobs were suffering. There were three sections of ...
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, ...
One glimpse into women's occupations is thelist of Civilian Internees, compiled in 1942. If you search for 'Miss' or 'Mrs' on that page, and look in their 'Title' column, you'll get an idea of the types of jobs British women in Hong Kong were working in before the British surrender...
By mid-1943, 27,000 American women served in the WAVES program. While their WW1 counterparts served only as nurses and secretaries, these WW2-era women took up far more responsibilities. Secretarial and clerical jobs still made up a large portion of WAVES positions, but thousands of WAVES per...
“These new features don’t understand human situations. If we don’t show up for the jobs, we are being arbitrarily terminated/our work-ID get blocked,” she said. MediaNama has written to the company asking about the auto pilot feature introduced recently. This copy will be updated once...
CONTRIBUTION VS STATUS Has the status of women in Canada matched their contribution to the Canadian society? While the men where off in Germany the women had to do all of the men's jobs. After a while the women were aloud to enlist in the war. After the war many women had lost all ...
How Did Ww2 Affect North American Economy Many argue that women’s status in American society was improved during the Second World War through their contributions to the North American economy. During the Second World War women were “allowed” to do the jobs that were originally meant for men...
The black dots were Māori who served in the British Army in all wars from 1840 to World War I, the blue were those who served in World War I, the green World War II, and the grey all the wars after WW2. The red “dot” on any of those colors represents that the person had ...
that he graduated with an Associate Degree in Finance in 1961. He worked various jobs until 1968 when he was drafted in to the US Army. He was sent to Fort Gordon, Georgia for 8 months basic training and was then ordered to Fort Dix in New Jersey. There he received his...