Canadian Women In Ww2 Essay
Introduction;
Thesis statement: Canadian women had many duties during WW2 after the men had left for battle.
- Women always had a "ladylike" image that they were expected to fit.
-The involvement of Canadian women in WW2 was one of the most important primary steps towards Canadas current state of gender equality, because those women took on a untraditonal military role that back then you would NEVER expect a women to take on, challenged social stereotypes and refused to return to traditional roles after war.
-(STARTING SENTENCE) When WW2 came around it changed lives for Canadian women because they had to leave their everyday jobs to go and do the mens jobs too.
-Wmen were much more accepted in the work force. Why? Because many …show more content…
had to supplement the work force with the massive drain of working men during the war into military roles overseas. Once on the job, having proved their productivity, the acceptibility of women doing many jobs was changed forever.
PARAGRAPH 1: "Womens work places and job in WW2"
-Some women weren't just expected too stay home and cook and clean anymore, they had to keep the mens jobs up also.
-The types of work that women did during WW2 included factory jobs, maintenance work, ship building and war crafting like tank building and war tools. In the armed forces - clerical work and transportation, nursing and work on the land, they done all of the jobs for the men while they were away.
-Before the war womens only jobs were usually teaching and nursing and house keeping.
-The women that did stay home usually knitted/made clothes to go over seas, they made small blankets, wool socks and some mittins. They also cold-packed food to be sent over too.
-All of these factory and out door jobs made the women more stronger and assertive, after all this the women did not expect to go back to being house wifes again.
-The majority of women had to manage both of their husbands jobs and the house work still.
-For women, between July 1941 and March 1942 all 3 services opened up opportunites for women (beyond nursing) the Air Force (July 1941), Canadian Womens Army Corps (March 1942), the Army (August 1941), the Navy (July 1942).
-Women had to take care of their children, do the house work and work on the homefront and keep up the mens jobs.
Some women also worked in the Army or some sort of work force too. Women had to provide money for their familys so they had to work double jobs while their husbands were over seas.
-Daycares were common at factories for the women's children to go to while they worked.
-Without the women on The Home Front, the Armed Forces could not have been kept supplied with aircraft, ships, weapons and supplies to fight the war.
PARAGRAPH 2: "How Canadian women changed history for women."
-Prior to WW2, women were supposed to be the "weaker" sex. This meant they were there to be pretty and to make sure the house was clean, food was cooked. This changed very quickly once WW2 begun, women proved to the men that they were capable of doing everything a man could do.
-WW2 was the breaking for women, it broke most stereotypes towards women doing "mens" jobs, or working in the war.
-The war saw extremely high female involvement in the workforce as well as the military once WW2 had begun, and a lot of women involvement AFTER WW2.
-Women did not return to their everyday jobs after they came home because they felt equal with men now so they done mens jobs
still.
-By 1950, 22% of the workforce was women, from 1951-1986 married women went from 11% to 56%, showing a steady increase from the period directly after WW2.
-These jobs eventually began increasing the women's pay; although this never equalled to the amount the men were making. But it was a start. By the end of the war, women were expected to go back to their traditional roles, but because of the jobs they took during the war they were becoming to be considered as EQUALS among the men.
-Most women did get to keep the jobs they had while the men were at war. (working shops, offices, ect.)
-Within a few years of the ending of the war in 1945, employment of women was back to its wartime peak, and still climbing. However, the jobs they they were holding down were not, for the most part, careers. women were typists and sales clerks and telephone operators and receptionists, doing the low-paid and unglamorous work no returning veteran would want to snatch. This was just the start for the women again, jobs like this kept growing and growing after WW2 for women too.
-Sothe war led to several direct changes to society
1. Women were given the opportunity to work and they liked it (this later paved the way for the womens rights movement in the 1960's)
2. Most of these women had saved some money while they were working (so it enabled a whole generation of people to get a start on things like buying homes)
3. It showed that women could do the work of men, could be equal to men.
Thesis statement: Canadian women had many duties during WW2 after the men had left for battle.
- Women always had a "ladylike" image that they were expected to fit.
-The involvement of Canadian women in WW2 was one of the most important primary steps towards Canadas current state of gender equality, because those women took on a untraditonal military role that back then you would NEVER expect a women to take on, challenged social stereotypes and refused to return to traditional roles after war.
-(STARTING SENTENCE) When WW2 came around it changed lives for Canadian women because they had to leave their everyday jobs to go and do the mens jobs too.
-Wmen were much more accepted in the work force. Why? Because many …show more content…
had to supplement the work force with the massive drain of working men during the war into military roles overseas. Once on the job, having proved their productivity, the acceptibility of women doing many jobs was changed forever.
PARAGRAPH 1: "Womens work places and job in WW2"
-Some women weren't just expected too stay home and cook and clean anymore, they had to keep the mens jobs up also.
-The types of work that women did during WW2 included factory jobs, maintenance work, ship building and war crafting like tank building and war tools. In the armed forces - clerical work and transportation, nursing and work on the land, they done all of the jobs for the men while they were away.
-Before the war womens only jobs were usually teaching and nursing and house keeping.
-The women that did stay home usually knitted/made clothes to go over seas, they made small blankets, wool socks and some mittins. They also cold-packed food to be sent over too.
-All of these factory and out door jobs made the women more stronger and assertive, after all this the women did not expect to go back to being house wifes again.
-The majority of women had to manage both of their husbands jobs and the house work still.
-For women, between July 1941 and March 1942 all 3 services opened up opportunites for women (beyond nursing) the Air Force (July 1941), Canadian Womens Army Corps (March 1942), the Army (August 1941), the Navy (July 1942).
-Women had to take care of their children, do the house work and work on the homefront and keep up the mens jobs.
Some women also worked in the Army or some sort of work force too. Women had to provide money for their familys so they had to work double jobs while their husbands were over seas.
-Daycares were common at factories for the women's children to go to while they worked.
-Without the women on The Home Front, the Armed Forces could not have been kept supplied with aircraft, ships, weapons and supplies to fight the war.
PARAGRAPH 2: "How Canadian women changed history for women."
-Prior to WW2, women were supposed to be the "weaker" sex. This meant they were there to be pretty and to make sure the house was clean, food was cooked. This changed very quickly once WW2 begun, women proved to the men that they were capable of doing everything a man could do.
-WW2 was the breaking for women, it broke most stereotypes towards women doing "mens" jobs, or working in the war.
-The war saw extremely high female involvement in the workforce as well as the military once WW2 had begun, and a lot of women involvement AFTER WW2.
-Women did not return to their everyday jobs after they came home because they felt equal with men now so they done mens jobs
still.
-By 1950, 22% of the workforce was women, from 1951-1986 married women went from 11% to 56%, showing a steady increase from the period directly after WW2.
-These jobs eventually began increasing the women's pay; although this never equalled to the amount the men were making. But it was a start. By the end of the war, women were expected to go back to their traditional roles, but because of the jobs they took during the war they were becoming to be considered as EQUALS among the men.
-Most women did get to keep the jobs they had while the men were at war. (working shops, offices, ect.)
-Within a few years of the ending of the war in 1945, employment of women was back to its wartime peak, and still climbing. However, the jobs they they were holding down were not, for the most part, careers. women were typists and sales clerks and telephone operators and receptionists, doing the low-paid and unglamorous work no returning veteran would want to snatch. This was just the start for the women again, jobs like this kept growing and growing after WW2 for women too.
-Sothe war led to several direct changes to society
1. Women were given the opportunity to work and they liked it (this later paved the way for the womens rights movement in the 1960's)
2. Most of these women had saved some money while they were working (so it enabled a whole generation of people to get a start on things like buying homes)
3. It showed that women could do the work of men, could be equal to men.