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Project id | 1002214 |
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Subject area | Arts Entertainment |
Document type | Essay |
Words | 2376 |
With the arrival of the 1920s as well as the signing of the Nineteenth Amendment came a quick move toward women's rights. It sped up with the beginning of World War II in which six million women went to work in military factories, making ammunition and other military goods for the sixteen million troops fighting overseas. The conclusion of the war brought the recognition that American girls could work equally as efficiently and hard as American men. Thus the idea of feminism was born. From here, the momentum continued before shooting a hit with the loss of the Equal Rights Amendment from the 1980s. This just caused women to fight harder and a new generation of independent women appeared in the early 1990s. Nowadays, self-sufficient women can be found anywhere as CEOs in companies like PepsiCo and Kraft Foods or as associate justices on the Supreme Court. However, all of the strides taken thus far had its origins not in businesses or the government but at the army. Since Joan of Arc first picked up a sword to fight to the French, women have disguised themselves as men in order to fight for their nation and to their own private liberty. As an example, throughout the Civil War (1860-1865), nearly three hundred women fought bravely in support of the Northern and Southern cause (Weiser). Yet despite their bravery, three hundred looks trivial next to the roughly three million male soldiers that fought next to them (Weiser). The majority of contributions came from the women who remained inside the societal boundaries of their moment. Unfortunately, most reports of women in the Civil War focus on the hidden soldiers and not the encouraging housewives. With such a tiny quantity of women defying the standard, one has to wonder to what extent did women.
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