Pilot’s image is usually an image of a male pilot, but you don’t ever think of a women being a pilot. During World War II a woman, Jacqueline Cochran, helped women get involved in the war effort by setting up a program to train more women to fly military aircrafts. More than twenty thousand women applied to Cochran’s program. “...1,830 women were accepted, and 1,074 finished a 23 week training” (Howes). The first class of trainees graduated in 1943. Cochran said ““they were being …show more content…
Women are now judges, lawyers, marines, SWAT, FBI, & can do it just as well or even better as males. They even “...came out of the Second World War with a high degree of organizational capital that should have seen them advance into managerial positions” (Wilson). Women changed the game for women all around the U.S. They felt like it was okay to have opinions and having the right to work and this later on resulted in women having rights and also the right to vote. Due to World War II, the lives of women changed in three ways: being able to work in the army and be pilots, women standing up for themselves the get the same privileges as men, and women working from the homefront, feeling confident, and like they have a