women's rights

• WAVES ( navy, on shore doctors, engineers, radio operators)
• WASPS (air force, non combat)
• WACS (army, mechanics, typists, operators, clerks. consisted of 150,000 women)
• 1943, recruited women suffered after they were rumored to be immoral. spread by people who felt it was wrong for women to work in these roles
• women campaigned for these groups and they got limited support from forces. they had to actively take their freedom
• propaganda campaign to get women working, Rosie the Riveter
• skilled labour - plane engineers, mechanics at Brookley field ( 70% of managers said women were their best workers)
• women's land army
• discrimination - paid 30-50% of men's waged
• end of war - expected to give up their freedoms and return to domestic life
• for many women, although they still faced injustice during this period they were still happy that they got to do more than what they could in the past
• 1940s, women working. 1950s, women back to traditional lives. 1960s, daughters of these women want to work like their mothers did back in the 1940s. 20 years rule