Introduction The year is 1943: It is a warm summer day with children playing outside and wives doing laundry, happily waiting for their fathers/husbands to come home from work. In place of this peaceful scenario, anxious mothers are instead working in shell casing factories and steel mills while children are working at scrap yards wondering when dad will come back home again.or if he ever will come back at all. In the years of World War II, a sense of patriotism brought together women and children to work for wartime efforts. Despite the overall effort put towards the war, there are a substantial number of differences seen generationally between the two groups. These play a role in how both women and children perceived and contributed to the
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To best benefit their families, they have to be willing to sacrifice their wants to ensure they put their needs first. Bringing a specific focus to women’s efforts on the homefront, the hardships they faced, and the different problems they experienced with children shows the strength and power that they truly have, empowering them to find their purpose.
Empowerment Through Purpose During wartime, women were seen as powerful forces, holding the home together while their husbands, fathers, and sons were off fighting for the country. The sole purpose for women during this time was to empower those around them to keep hope alive. By working together in different places throughout the U.S., they could push one another to do their best in a time of worry. For some, though, work was seen as an opportunity to challenge once-held beliefs that women should remain in the home. Bessie Stokes got the chance to work outside the home, and through her husband's doubt, took this opportunity as a challenge to keep her family afloat during the war while he was gone. When her husband returned home, after the war, she told him: “Don’t you ever tell me I have to depend on you for a living.” Some women, instead of challenging their …show more content…
These women, who were once working on the homefront, now had a new opportunity to truly show what they were capable of. Although women felt empowerment through service, with finally finding what they had thought was a greater purpose, there was still an absorbent amount of backlash that they received, specifically from men and the government. Marcy C. Lyne and Kay Arthur, who were SPARS in the war, would often hear “Men.[protesting] longly and loudly that they didn’t care for “women in uniform”. (cite) Even when it came to the burial process for those who died during the war, there were very different sides to those serving for the same purpose. For burials, male pilots were buried with honors but female pilots had been told that the “Army.was not responsible”. In addition to accounts from these women, the Washington Post released an article where a couple of WASPs came out about their fight for equal benefits from the government. As of 1974, these women had still been fighting for the quality they deserved when it came to benefits. At the time of the article, about “850 WASPs still living [were] lobbying Congress for veterans’ benefits”, showing the clear
To best benefit their families, they have to be willing to sacrifice their wants to ensure they put their needs first. Bringing a specific focus to women’s efforts on the homefront, the hardships they faced, and the different problems they experienced with children shows the strength and power that they truly have, empowering them to find their purpose.
Empowerment Through Purpose During wartime, women were seen as powerful forces, holding the home together while their husbands, fathers, and sons were off fighting for the country. The sole purpose for women during this time was to empower those around them to keep hope alive. By working together in different places throughout the U.S., they could push one another to do their best in a time of worry. For some, though, work was seen as an opportunity to challenge once-held beliefs that women should remain in the home. Bessie Stokes got the chance to work outside the home, and through her husband's doubt, took this opportunity as a challenge to keep her family afloat during the war while he was gone. When her husband returned home, after the war, she told him: “Don’t you ever tell me I have to depend on you for a living.” Some women, instead of challenging their …show more content…
These women, who were once working on the homefront, now had a new opportunity to truly show what they were capable of. Although women felt empowerment through service, with finally finding what they had thought was a greater purpose, there was still an absorbent amount of backlash that they received, specifically from men and the government. Marcy C. Lyne and Kay Arthur, who were SPARS in the war, would often hear “Men.[protesting] longly and loudly that they didn’t care for “women in uniform”. (cite) Even when it came to the burial process for those who died during the war, there were very different sides to those serving for the same purpose. For burials, male pilots were buried with honors but female pilots had been told that the “Army.was not responsible”. In addition to accounts from these women, the Washington Post released an article where a couple of WASPs came out about their fight for equal benefits from the government. As of 1974, these women had still been fighting for the quality they deserved when it came to benefits. At the time of the article, about “850 WASPs still living [were] lobbying Congress for veterans’ benefits”, showing the clear