Women's

A detailed Summary of Women's

Women and The Expansion of Their Roles in Society

Before the 1940's your average woman would be at home taking care of the household chores and preparing diner for the family. The women make sure that when her husband and family returned that dinner was on the table and the house was clean. The men would work all day and make the household income. In the late 1930's early 1940's the role of women changed dramatically. The world was going to war again and unfortuntly the world was all but ready. However had this war never had taken place women may still be in the kitchen today. The majority of men were called upon to fight for their country and knowing that you can't be two places at once the question of who would run the factory's, bussiness and all the things the men were doing before hand arose. This is where the women come in.

Women took the place of men completley. They were working in factories, shipyards, lumbermills, steelmills, and foundries. Women were going crazy, they were testing the boundries and taking the best of their known abilities and taking them to the highest of their unknown. Women let their minds expand and it wasn't long that the society realized that women too, had extradinary abilities.

General George C. Marshall was the first to take interest. In 1941 General Marshall ordered the war department to create a women's corporation. Finally on may 14, 1942 the bill to "establish a Women's Auxiliary corps" was re-presented. Oveta culp Hobby, wife of the former governor of Texas, was appointed director. With a little help from Eleanor Roosevelt the navy united and authorized a Woman's Naval Reserve and a Marine Corps Women's Reserve. The Coast Guard followed closely. The first director of WAVES ( Women accepted for volunteer emergency service) was LT. Commander Mildred McAfee. The SPARS (which came from the coast guard motto semper paratus- always ready) was led by LT. Commander Dorothy C. Stratton. The marines Corps Women's Reserve was led by Major Ruth Cheyney Streeter. A second bill was later signed in July 1943, by President Roosevelt changing the WAAC to the WAC. This placing it as part of the army and not an auxiliary.

By January 1944 the first WAC'S arrived in the Pacific and in July of 1944, WAC'S landed on the beach at Normandy. By this time there were over 100,000 women in uniform. There were already nurses serving in England and Egypt. Women continued to serve overseas through 1945 and at one point there were over 2000 WAC'S serving in North Africa alone. Form their women were sent to Italy serves with the fifth Army and these women moved all over Italy during the Italian campaign. Handling the communications. As a result they earned commendations, bronze stars, and overall they gaine

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