Wake became the most decorated woman working with the Allies in WW2. Nancy Wake passed away on August 7, 2011, just before her 99th birthday. Ruby Bradley In 1934, Colonel Bradley joined the Army Nurse Corps as a surgical nurse. At the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she ...
Hong Kong British society was notorious for its snobbery during the period you are looking at, Jane. Any working class women would have had a hard time socially unless they already had family in Hong Kong. In case it's useful, the Canossian Convent tried to ensure that its charges left t...
Recognizing that a working woman oftentimes needed to juggle shift work with childcare, GECO provided an on-site nursery for employees' children. A view of the war-time nursery at the GECO plant. Photo courtesy of the Archives of Ontario. When the war ended, many women lamented the return...
Women’s roles change during World War II because men were gone and their responsibilities weren’t being taken care of. The women began working and doing the men’s house chores for them along with their own responsibilities has women(Graves 1-2). The women were the only people who could...
I am an Uruguaian student (Humanistics and Education Science Faculty - Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay) and at this moment, I am working on Women's History during Hammurabi's era. For that reason I would appreciate any information you could send me about the women's life...
(Hedy would later use her influence and fame to help her mother escape from Austria during the Nazi regime.) Producer Max Reinhardt discovered Hedy in the late 1920s and brought her to Berlin to train. She then returned to Vienna to begin working in the film industry, first as a script ...
Comparison of Women Status essaysIn addition to age, gender is one of the universal dimensions on which status differences are based. Gender is a social construction that specifies socially stereotyped roles that men and women are to follow. Women have a
During the two decades from 1920 to 1940, the number of American women working outside the home increased slightly. In 1920, women made up 23.6 percent of the labor force; by 1940, this percentage had risen to 25.4. Some advances were made in working women's rights, but during the Great...
0 Post Views:6,559 Extraordinary Photos of Women Fire-Fighters in Britain During WW2 On Friday June 10 1938, over a year before the beginning of WW2, the London... 0 Post Views:4,782 Brooklands, and the Amazing Women Racing Drivers of the 1930s ...
INTIMINA’s Women of the Month We wanted to shine the light on some of the strongest human beings in order to give them praise and to show others how the fight for improvement never stops. These are our for Women of the Month. They’re friends, mothers, activists, and powerful ladies....