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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Hello David, 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...
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 ...
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,...
This article examines the work of one of these women as revealed through film, archival records and oral history drawn from a broader study that examined the work of 12 former camera operators and four "computers" on the Woomera rocket range.Stella M. Barber...
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...
“The Canadian Women Workers Monument” shows the factories during ww2 where the women built the equipment to win the war effort. On the other side of the sculpture the victory of the allies is represented, suggesting that the victory was conditional on the industry at home. The work is loca...
In general, all government records are in the public domain and may be freely used... Additionally, according to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of th...