19. WW2 and its impact on women Flashcards
female cooperation and participation
essential
greater number of women who
work
factories and workshops needed labour for government contracts, men were taken into armed forces =
restrictions on women working made to protect mens jobs disappeared
propaganda?
impression of a considerable expansion of opportunity and responsibility for women
increase in women in state legislatures from
144 to 228
some increase in women in
Congress and women in public office
women worked in more skilled jobs, new challenges-
increased confidence and status
politically limitations?
not involved in
wartime decision-making on home front or about aims and method of war
politically limitations?
New Deal practice of government agencies being dominated by men in top managerial positions
continued
politically limitations?
women unable to secure type of support for
working women in form of childcare and cheap restaurants or canteens that British working women achieved during this war. still expected to combine domestic responsibilities with most tiring and demanding work
politically limitations?
despite having organisation National Council of Negro Women
little consultation with AA women and little opportunity for them to join armed forces of take on managerial jobs
politically limitations?
harsh treatment of japanese community after Pearl Harbour
life for Japanese American women hard. confinement and discrimination
politically limitations?
women remained with
little real influence in political parties
politically limitations?
divisions?
conservative women’s groups did not support greater help for working mothers or equality of opportunity believing war should not erode traditional family values
results of war
increased economic activity during war
sustained period of prosperity
led to greater domestication of women
reduction of social issues which women campaigned for
