“World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind.” -http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/wac/wac.htm This statement is very true because World War ll was filled with many conflicts between certain countries and even new creations such as Women’s Army Corps. Women’s Army Corps were corps made for the military in which women would take care of wounded soldiers who would come in from a war. These Women were nurses to these soldiers. On the other hand, Women’s Army Corps also had another purpose to it. Women will go into the military and fight for their country. This had a great impact on many women and even the world today. Without the creation of Women’s Army Corps, there wouldn’t have been women today fighting for their country. Women’s Army Corps had a huge impact on today’s society because it brought women into fighting for their countries in the military. Before these Corps were made, usually men will only go into the military and fight. But …show more content…
This was also one of the reasons why they created Women’s Army Corps. “Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.” -Gloria Steinem A long time ago, sometimes women were upset and even mad because only men were allowed to fight in the military. In one of the articles, it says that men and women should have equal rights to do the same thing even if they are different genders. This proves that everybody should be equal and that was one of the reasons why they created these Women Army Corps. “A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.” -Gloria Steinem The main reason for creating these corps were because of the women who became upset with the fact that a long time ago at that time, men always served in the army and women were only allowed to stay at home and cook for their families. Then, they made these
With the women’s rights movement and the end of the draft the pentagon was compelled to review the status of women in the military. (Moore) The Army committee had recommendations to separate the women’s corps to increase the specialties offered to women. The Army committee also pushed opening ROTC and military academies to women and also changed the law that required automatic discharge if a woman became pregnant. It was after these recommendations were followed that women could serve in 430 of the 467 military specialties, but they could not command any unit that had a combat mission.
The Women’s Armed Services Integration Act was a law passed by President Harry S. Truman, allowing women to join the army. Before the act was passed, only men were permitted to be in combat, while women in the army worked in clinical positions. When World War II began, despite women not being allowed to join the “regular” army, the Women’s Army Corps was created and granted full army status during wartime. The growth in the number of women in the corps, along with the fact that they performed equally to the army, were two of the main factors for the law to be created and passed. The WAC was set to be expired in 1948, but the act was passed in the same years which meant that women would continue to be allowed to fight in the army.
Not only were men fighting the war but women were also helping the fight either from the bases or the home front. Some women like Nancy Wake fought
Diane Andrews Henningfeld edited Should Women Be Allowed to Serve in Combat in the U.S Armed Forces, the purpose for writing this book gave the reader reasons why women should be in the army and how they should get what they deserve for playing a part in the war. In the opening lines it states “Women have been fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with men in the United States Army since the Republic’s beginnings undisputable historic facts.” This sentence tells us that the author is really bias toward women in the army. In introducing the book, Diane Henningfeld tells of us about how women should be in the U.S Army.
Women played a key role in the war, many women risk their lives and serve in the military, “Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs became the first women to fly American military aircraft. They ferried planes from factories to bases, transporting cargo and participating in simulation strafing and target missions” (History.com). For the time in American history women was doing other thing in the military. Many women enjoy their jobs during World War 2 because it was new opportunity and many were excited because they helping with the war effort. By allowing women in the workforce more will create more available manpower to fight overseas.
Women in the Second World War participated in the war effort by joining the women’s uniformed services. The Canadian women’s Army Corps was approved on the 13th August 1941 to enlist thousands of women in support roles for the military forces.¹ The CWAC, Canadian Women’s Army Corps largely operated in Canada, as a corps within the active militia of Canada, but by 1944, they were assigned to clerical and support duties in war regions. Several thousands were sent to support Canadian forces in Britain, Italy and northeast Europe. The CWAC made up to 2.8% of the total Canadian Army in 1945.² The CWAC is recognized as great contribution that women played in the success of the Allied victory in World War II.
The Effect of Women on the Outcome of World War Two World War II effected women tremendously by taking them out of their comfort zones and chucking them into the work force and pushing them to do most of the work men normally would have been doing. The war also effected women by providing opportunities for them to serve in non-traditional roles; in fact, some of them enlisted into the military to serve the United States. The way the war effected women is that they had to take care of family in addition to performing work normally done by men. It was difficult to find people to watch after kids which made life during this time very difficult. After the end of World War II society in general was effected considering the baby boom.
In the feature article “All Guts, No Glory”, I agree with the author Molly M. Ginty, that women participating in combat. If I was in the military some of the things that might affect me would be probably because of my gender. First, women would not be put into battle because people think women cannot handle the work or bloodshed. They think women are better off bring a nurse for helping men in battle if they get injured. Second, they think women in combat would be a distraction.
The Civil War was a series of battles fought from 1861 to 1865 between the North, the Union, and the South, the Confederacy, of the United States of America over the disagreements on the acceptance of slavery. It was a long fought war with high casualties on both sides. Due to that, even more civilians were needed to become soldiers, spies, and etc. Men were always the ones that were expected to fill those positions, despite some of them not wanting to. Women were expected to stay home as the men in their life left for the war.
With so many men serving in the military, women were needed to fill jobs previously reserved for men. Many
During World War II, Woman’s were assembled for duty in the Canadian Armed Forces, for the first time. The armed force was shy of men in war services and administration, which lead the Canadian government to choose and declare on August 13, 1941 to give woman’s the privilege to take an interest in war utility. 50,000 women were enlisted and more than half provided service in the Canadian Army. Most were doled out occupations including customary female work, for example, cooking, clothing and administrative obligations, also woman had pioneer roles in the mechanized and specialized fields. The Canadian Women 's Army Corps (CWAC) performed fundamental administrations, both at home and abroad, that achieved Allied victory.
In the book written by (Gavin, 1997) it was cited that “As women took over from their absent men in hundreds of new and challenging occupations, many of which had previously been considered inappropriate”. From the beginning of the World War 1, the German women were participating a great deal. They contributed to half a million-people working on the munitions manufacturing alone (Gavin, 1997). It also mentioned in the book that over in the U.S, the men in charge refused to let the women participate up until April 1917 (Gavin, 1997). The U.S government never formally authorize the enrolment of women, despite Army officials repeatedly asking for such personnel’s.
All females have the choice to join the military, as well as get any position they work hard to get by passing the requirements needed. The woman in the military are there by choice if women start getting drafted the government will take away the choice that the woman had. Surveys show the majority of women do not want to be drafted. The surveys that were taken shows less than 50% of women wanted to be drafted. According to a Rasmussen survey, only 38% of women said
So during the War many different opinions were developed, the main achievement was that women helped the war effort by putting in their blood, sweat and
Women have progressed in the military in great amounts which hopefully will continue to do so in the