Equal Pay? The right to Vote? The respect of their fellow citizens something about everything is turning up rosie.
In 1848 the women of the Nation decided to take a stand and fight for their rights as equal beings. The women at the convention drafted their own declaration of independence and proclaimed their grievances. They also passed eleven resolutions to better their lot. Over the next century women continued this fight for equality. Although women’s place in the world advanced considerably between the 1840s and the 1950s, they still faced a lot of the same problems that their foremothers fought against. Their social, economic and political standings rose considerably during the war in the absence of men, because they were needed to step …show more content…
Even when the woman were given the jobs and praised for their successes in their new industry the praises were a double edged sword full of the stereotypes the women were struggling to hard to escape. Their every move was compared to their work in the kitchen “the ladies have shown they can operate drill presses as well as egg beaters” (Ford Motor Company) “instead of baking a cake, this woman is cooking gears to reduce the tension in the gears after use” (Glamour Girls of ‘43). The women were showing that they were proficient in their new trade, but society still viewed them as second class citizens. While the men were away at war woman had to step up and fill roles, but they were not to forget their oldest and most important job, donning an apron in “women 's vital services to the Nation-- feeding the family.” (the WONS*) Constantly sexualized even when they were simply trying to help out their country every article in the magazines comments on the dress and appearance of the women workers. It went to great detail of how they kept their hair and …show more content…
But they would have quickly seen past the thinly spread illusion of equality that war time America created. They would have seen the continued lack of equal pay, subjugation and humiliation women suffered everyday when their every move was for a man. Where each and every accomplishment was praised, but in the same breath as the praise there was always another confirming that women were still the inferior gender. They would have been proud of the progress that womankind had made. From the inability to vote to women in congress, from the lack of ability to find work to women in every factory. They would have been proud but they would also have urged them to fight on, to continue fighting until women were truly equals. Not pawns, stand ins when the men were gone, and people whose only pleasure was derived for providing comfort for a man. But one where women could stand equally on the same plane as man and have an equal opportunity in all that they
In 1848 the women of the Nation decided to take a stand and fight for their rights as equal beings. The women at the convention drafted their own declaration of independence and proclaimed their grievances. They also passed eleven resolutions to better their lot. Over the next century women continued this fight for equality. Although women’s place in the world advanced considerably between the 1840s and the 1950s, they still faced a lot of the same problems that their foremothers fought against. Their social, economic and political standings rose considerably during the war in the absence of men, because they were needed to step …show more content…
Even when the woman were given the jobs and praised for their successes in their new industry the praises were a double edged sword full of the stereotypes the women were struggling to hard to escape. Their every move was compared to their work in the kitchen “the ladies have shown they can operate drill presses as well as egg beaters” (Ford Motor Company) “instead of baking a cake, this woman is cooking gears to reduce the tension in the gears after use” (Glamour Girls of ‘43). The women were showing that they were proficient in their new trade, but society still viewed them as second class citizens. While the men were away at war woman had to step up and fill roles, but they were not to forget their oldest and most important job, donning an apron in “women 's vital services to the Nation-- feeding the family.” (the WONS*) Constantly sexualized even when they were simply trying to help out their country every article in the magazines comments on the dress and appearance of the women workers. It went to great detail of how they kept their hair and …show more content…
But they would have quickly seen past the thinly spread illusion of equality that war time America created. They would have seen the continued lack of equal pay, subjugation and humiliation women suffered everyday when their every move was for a man. Where each and every accomplishment was praised, but in the same breath as the praise there was always another confirming that women were still the inferior gender. They would have been proud of the progress that womankind had made. From the inability to vote to women in congress, from the lack of ability to find work to women in every factory. They would have been proud but they would also have urged them to fight on, to continue fighting until women were truly equals. Not pawns, stand ins when the men were gone, and people whose only pleasure was derived for providing comfort for a man. But one where women could stand equally on the same plane as man and have an equal opportunity in all that they