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Roles Of Women In WWII

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ROLES OF WOMEN

IN WWII

EUROPE

WOMEN IN

BRITAIN

  • 1917- the WAAC and WRNS created
  • Workers allowed only domestic duties
  • Dec. 1941- National Service Act passed
  • Allowed for conscription of women
  • Chose armed forces or work in farming or industry

FRANCE

  • Made up 20% of French Resistance
  • Underground duties- spies, newspaper writers
  • Marie-Madeline Fourcade- 1st female leader of a maquis
  • Maquis- a revolutionary group of rural resistance fighters

SOVIET UNION

  • Most active female armed forces
  • 800,000 women volunteered and served
  • Served as pilots, snipers, machine gunners, etc.
  • Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko killed 300 German soldiers
  • Struggled with discrimination and harassment

POLAND

POLAND

  • Women acted as couriers and scouts
  • Home army female soldiers carried weapons and fought

GERMANY

  • 1945- 85% of auxiliary army jobs held by women
  • Hitler encouraged women not to work
  • "Produce more pure Aryan children to fight in future wars"
  • 1933- Law for the Encouragement of Marriage
  • 1937- "Duty Year"

ASIA

WOMEN IN

JAPAN & JAPANESE AMERICANS

  • Japanese and Chinese Americans in the military
  • Many were Nisei- 2nd generation American
  • Wanted to show loyalty and end the war
  • Military intelligence service linguistics

TOKYO ROSE

  • Americans forced to spread Japanese propaganda
  • Radio broadcasts demoralized Americans
  • Orphan Annie Radio Program

WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN JAPAN

  • Became head of household
  • Key to economic success
  • Took over men's jobs
  • Support of General MacArthur

MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK

  • Wife of Chinese leader
  • Head of China's Air Force
  • Active protester of Japanese occupation

COMFORT WOMEN

  • Sex slavery
  • Japanese treatment
  • Personal account
  • Repercussions after WWII

THE UNITED STATES

WOMEN IN

PROPAGANDA

  • Rosie the Riveter
  • Encouraged patriotic work in non-traditonal jobs

WOMEN'S ROLES IN THE MILITARY

  • Non-combatants served in domestic jobs
  • Any military role available except for combat roles
  • Women served as as Air Force Service Pilots
  • "Victory girls" and "sporting girls"

WOMENS ROLES AT HOME

  • Working rates increased from 25 to 36%
  • Took over every job possible to free men to fight

WHEN MEN RETURNED

  • Women forced out of jobs and back into the house
  • Women fought back- "Tupperware Parties"

IMPORTANT AMERICAN WOMEN

  • Eleanor Roosevelt- built morale
  • Frances Perkins- US Secretary of Labor
  • Oveta Culp Hobby- director of Women's Army Corps
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