Traditional gender roles reinforced in Southern California: Working women during World War II.During World War II, women in Southern California entered the workforce and enjoyed a newfound economic freedom. This thesis argues that the implementation of government policies and national trends by the ...
Wartime women: Sex roles, family relations and the status of women during World War II: by Karen Anderson. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1981 Author links open overlay panel Show more Add to Mendeley Share Cite https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(82)90051-6Get rights and content ...
For centuries, women have helped to defend the nation in times of war and conflict. In this tribute to those who served, the Dunn Museum shares unique Lake County stories and explores women's roles as nurses, auxiliary personnel, enlistees, and officers in the U.S. military. The nation's...
During World War II—which greatly changed women’s roles in society, especially as more joined the workforce—the number of women in Congress entered the double digits (10) for the first time. The 77th Congress had 10 women members out of a total of 531 members. That is 1.88% of all...
While most toiled in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women took up arms. 800,000 women served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war. Nearly 200,000 were...
The Women of World War II 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 108 作者: D Campbell 关键词:the women of World War II, women volunteering out of patriotism World War II, requiring the help of every single man and woman the Allies in placing women in roles, with the Axis lagging behind...
After making her acting debut in the 2000 war film Refugee, Kapoor established herself in Hindi cinema with roles in the historical drama Aśoka and the blockbuster melodrama, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., (both 2001). This initial success was followed by a series of commercial failures and ...
In more and more Western societies, women play increasingly important roles in the armed forces. More than 60 years after the above quoted statement was made in the congressional debate over the establishment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the conflicts expressed in it still strike...
Women's roles and work did not dramatically change during the First World War; their contributions as citizens simply received greater recognition. This article explores women's roles as subjects, objects and producers of National War Aims Committee propaganda in Britain during 1917–18. It examines...
Her work explored family relationships, politics and philosophy during and after the Fascist years, World War II. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside or contemporary Rome—appr...