How Did Women Affect The History Of Women

I Can Too: The Effects of WWI on the American History of Women and Their Workplace In the beginning, the roles were clearly defined by the current society. Women have been controlled by men since the 1800’s, first by one’s father, brother’s, and then eventually one’s husband. With the sole purpose of having children and maintaining the household. Since the dawn of time women have been only seen and used as weapons of procreation, and we as women were fine with that. During the 20th century things started to change, women no longer settled for the stay at home life, women became the workers of America.
During the pre-war era women did tasks and jobs that they have always done, those that belonged to them. Without World War I the world would …show more content…
With the United States being the main supplier of supplies during the war and men leaving their jobs to fight in the war the factories became empty and production of the necessary supplies was coming to a halt, someone had to step in. During the war women became employed in the food, textile, and most importantly war industries. By the time that 1917 rolled around women ran the country, they worked as government employees, assembly lines, train conductors, police officers, ammunition manufactures, and many more. Women started doing something that they never had- working twelve hour swifts then coming home and tending to …show more content…
Mom? Mom working dad’s old job? Could an American family survive? Although above I did tell you about women doing men work there was still a lasting stigma. PAYCHECK. The average American family could be comfortable with dad in the factory and mom at home, but when the roles were changed women were payed pennies to the dollar men got. Through the times, from women’s suffrage, gaining the right to vote, having a say in the household, in the 21st century we as women still are not 100% equal as men. Men, on average, get payed 25% more to do the same job. Men, on average, are promoted more within the companies ie: CEO’s, Executive Board Members, ect. Most boss’ in the era we live in see promoting women as not a safe investment, due to if she was to ever get married, get pregnant, or having an extreme lifestyle change: she would need time off-which would require training someone for the position for a small period of time or if she was on leave due a pregnancy they would need to have someone on almost backup for that time period and until she comes back, if she even does. Now on the other hand, promoting men is easy, does he have drive? Does he have a higher priority for his job vs. his family? Is he will to do whatever he can to makes this company strive? If so, he is promoted. You may be thinking well, you could ask those questions about a women and promote her. This is where the “safer” investment comes into play, if he has a kid the mother of the child is