17. Doherty, supra note 2, at B3; see also John H. Lee, Ex-'Comfort Girls' End Silence on War Horrors; Human Rights: Japan Has Admitted to the Conscription of Asian Women for Sex During World War II, But Some of the Survivors Are Pressing for Reparations, L.A. TIMES, Apr. 25,...
Equality in workforce numbers reflects a long-term cultural change, says Maureen Honey, author of Creating Rosie the Riveter, a book about the government"s campaign to persuade women to work outside the home during World War Ⅱ. "The image that the man has to be the breadwinner has changed...
Toward the end of "World War Two", reports economist Dr. Eli Ginzberg, "large numbers of wives entered the labor force. But the experts were sure that when peace came, the mothers would return to their 1 ways, leaving the work force to devote themselves exclusively 2 child-rearing, homema...
The US government wanted to study and express the opportunities and outlooks for women seeking careers in geology during World War II and into the post-war period. Bureaucratic organizations like the US Department of Labor and the Women’s Bureau published sophisticated studies of women working in...
The Germans were keenly aware of the effectiveness of tanks but were incapable during the war of producing their own. They only built a very small number of their own, and their most effective armored vehicles became captured British models basically with only new paint jobs. ...
passports. But there’s a big obstacle in the way: American tax laws. …The United States’ citizenship-based taxation system is unusual: Only Eritrea has a similar system. It’s a relic of the Civil War and the Revenue Act of 1862, which called for the taxing of U.S. citizens ...
MIT held classes year-round during World War II, so Norwood arrived in Cambridge in the summer of 1944, shortly after her high school graduation. The alumnus who’d interviewed her admitted he’d never interviewed a woman before (and told her she was less frumpy than the MIT women he’d...
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Florence Green was a British servicewoman who was the last surviving veteran of World War I. Patterson joined the newly created Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) on September 13, 1918, at age 17 and was assigned to work as a steward in the officers’ mess