Women+in+the+1940s

  **__Women in the 1940’s: The role and Status __**  ===="We were living day to day. When you are involved in stayin' alive, you don't think big things like a war. It didn't occur to us that we were making these shells to kill people. It never entered my head." Peggy Terry was one of the women that worked in factories in [|1940]; she worked all over after the depression. Peggy, her sister, and her mother, all worked at the shell loading plant in [|Kentucky], and living off thirty-two-dollars a week, they made nothing. "You won't believe how incredibly ignorant I was. I knew vaguely that a war had started, but I had no idea what it meant" "I was eighteen, and my husband was nineteen, we were living day to day" "My whole new world just opened up. I learned a lot of things that I didn't even know existed." To fill full the job of a women in the 1940, not only did you have to work during the day but also the night and also coming home late hours to your family that you had to take care of. With all the responsibilities that a women had to follow such has working hard hours and coming back to be a housewives. Before the war, women only worked at home when the men worked in factories, which made them real stay at home mothers. Women were workers, mothers, [|citizens], [|consumers], and community leaders. They were far away from the factories and the war. In [|1938] a World War began in [|Europe] when [|Hitler] invaded [|Poland]. At this time America stayed out of the war. Then "with in hours a surprise attack resulted in the destruction of 18 US [|warships] and airplanes and as well as the death of 2,433 American soldiers and sailors". As President Roosevelt said [|December 7, 1941] it was a "day that would live in in famy". This is when everything changed for the Americans, which brought them into the war. When [|World War II] all started, it made a huge impact and made women rap, not only in the women lives but also in men lives.When the men left for warin 1940, women replaced them in their jobs. When the [|soldiers] went to war they America had to supply them and other countries with weapons and supplies. This required women to work in factories and a lot of hard work and hours. But when the men returned to their jobs the jobs were lost and left women back at home. Throughout, the war more and more women had jobs that men had before they left. Some of the jobs included, clerking, typing, teaching, working in factories seven days a week, and areas that needed workers.As more and more women start working in [|factories] and [|air force] the image of Rosie the Riveter becomes larger and she becomes more popular. ==== ====The character of Rosie the Riveter reflected on [|society] and helped the women's image. Everyday thousands-then millions of women increased by 50% over the war years. Rosie strong rolled up sleeve attitude really stood out when her image was all over [|magazines] and [|advertisement]. Women saw her as a person who they could look up as a role model and what a real strong women stands for. [|Rosie the Riveter] was such an important image through the 1940s because it was extremely had for women to replace the men's jobs. From this strong image, more and more women were inspired of who she was. "This working women was strong, [|self-sufficient], patriotic and plucky." This cultural icon of Rosie the Riveter, stands for the 6 millilon women who worked in the [|army] and did jobs that they never thought they could handle. ==== ====Throughout the 1940s women did a high-quality of hard jobs that men did when before they left, although the women had the same jobs as the men his pay would be higher and from this they would hold on to the jobs like the men did. It was extremely hard for the women during this time because they had to do everything they could support their husband when leaving. From then on, women realized that not only did not get the right pay but they needed better working conditions. At this time, most of them moved east and west to begin organizing women workers to fight against this. The leader [|Luisa Moreno]worked long hours in a factory in [|New York City]at sewing machines while supporting her husband and also being a leader of a women's union. Over 300,000 women worked in either factory, designing parts for either planes or buildings, being teachers and even working in the air force.Their was a huge number of skilled working women that got even less pay than men, and the women who did get paid, got paid half of what men would earn with the same job hours. When the women were working they got $31.21, where when the men were working they got $54.65, which is a huge impacted on money. After the war, was the most difficult part for the women in the home front, was the husband coming home. While, their husbands were away, the women had great power with everything they did. They fell in love with working hard and believed in themselves that they were strong and could do anything, but when they came back, the men were looking forward to start working again but where does that leave the women. The return of the men from war, left the women back in the kitchen, being the diligent workers around the house. "The [|government] then launched another campaign that now, emphasized the need for women to leave the work force and go back to the kitchen, so that the men returning could reclaim their jobs and in the [|industry]."Where they ready to go back to where they were before the husband's left? Will women want to keep their jobs after the war is over? Married women, kept their jobs when needed because they needed the money to care for their children, this was extremely hard for them, but from this experienced it left the women very incredibly strong. ==== ====<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The status and role of the women in 1940 made a huge impact on the United States because it shows how strong women were and where women stand today in the world. After the war of 1940, the women and families were changed forever and are still living today and remembering the memories and hard work that they experienced. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">  ====