Civic housekeeping was essential to women’s contribution to the social and political issues within the U.S along to increase their status with the men of society. Women’s involvement in politics and government recognition was active during the women’s suffrage, the right for women to vote, movement during the middle of the 1800s to 1920. Congress approved the 19th Amendment, the right for women to vote, in 1918 and later became a part of the Constitution in 1920. There were notable women leaders and crusaders that promoted and advanced women’s status in the male dominant political climate. One of the leaders was Carrie Chapman Catt, a women’s suffrage campaigner that challenged Congress for the support of the establishment for a constitutional
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The reason why the government encouraged and appealed to women for the industrial jobs was because the men were inevitably drafted to the military which took them out of the workforce, thus opening up more employment for women in those industries. As a result, there was an expansion …show more content…
Women were working with highly developed plants and specific jobs that have not been done before. Although women were not in positions of authority in the Manhattan Project, a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon, the project would not have succeeded without women’s labor and efforts. However, misogyny was prevalent in the male dominant war industries. There were men in these industries that resisted women. Archibald wrote, “his principal complaint was the uselessness of the women and their continual preoccupation with mirror and lipstick”. Young men especially condemned women holding these occupations because women taking up space in industrial employment meant that they would get drafted into the military. There were even women who despised women in these non-feminine workplaces and believed in traditional norms for women and any women challenging these norms would cause discourse in society. “Many women indeed, were as fervid as the men in their antagonism to ideas which implied equality of economic opportunity.” In these workplaces women were
The reason why the government encouraged and appealed to women for the industrial jobs was because the men were inevitably drafted to the military which took them out of the workforce, thus opening up more employment for women in those industries. As a result, there was an expansion …show more content…
Women were working with highly developed plants and specific jobs that have not been done before. Although women were not in positions of authority in the Manhattan Project, a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon, the project would not have succeeded without women’s labor and efforts. However, misogyny was prevalent in the male dominant war industries. There were men in these industries that resisted women. Archibald wrote, “his principal complaint was the uselessness of the women and their continual preoccupation with mirror and lipstick”. Young men especially condemned women holding these occupations because women taking up space in industrial employment meant that they would get drafted into the military. There were even women who despised women in these non-feminine workplaces and believed in traditional norms for women and any women challenging these norms would cause discourse in society. “Many women indeed, were as fervid as the men in their antagonism to ideas which implied equality of economic opportunity.” In these workplaces women were