Women, Hispanics, Native Americans 1945 Usa
What problems did Hispanics, Native Americans and Women face in 1945 and how far had these been overcome by 1968?
Blacks weren’t the only people to face extreme discrimination, they also weren’t the only people who were being treated unfairly. Hispanics, Native Americans and Women all face some type of discrimination in the year of 1945. In this essay I will explain what types of problems they went through, how they dealt with them and if any, what solutions they came to. Women were amongst the types of people who had to deal with discrimination everyday. During the war women were given males jobs as most of the men had gone to fight in the army, this showed women new roles and opportunities. When the war ended in 1945 women would have to return to their original life, however having seen a different way of life, they wanted more of it. Women's unemployment rates were extremely high, three fifths of women that were aged over 16 were not working. The women that did have a job however, were paid on average $12,000 less than men annually. Women's lives were massively changed because of Betty Friedan, in 1963 Friedan wrote a book called “The Feminine Mystique” this book was a non-fiction book which highlighted the widespread unhappiness in the USA about how women were being treated, a quote taken from. the book read; “A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination” this showed that women only wanted to be equal and in no way superior to men. Other influential women such as Ti-Grace Atkinson fought for women's rights however she was much more radical – she influenced celibacy, lesbianism and female separation. Luckily, women had big powers such as president Kennedy helping them through, Kennedy set up the PCSW (Presidential Commission on the Status of Women) this commission was charged with “the responsibility for developing recommendations for overcoming discriminations in
Blacks weren’t the only people to face extreme discrimination, they also weren’t the only people who were being treated unfairly. Hispanics, Native Americans and Women all face some type of discrimination in the year of 1945. In this essay I will explain what types of problems they went through, how they dealt with them and if any, what solutions they came to. Women were amongst the types of people who had to deal with discrimination everyday. During the war women were given males jobs as most of the men had gone to fight in the army, this showed women new roles and opportunities. When the war ended in 1945 women would have to return to their original life, however having seen a different way of life, they wanted more of it. Women's unemployment rates were extremely high, three fifths of women that were aged over 16 were not working. The women that did have a job however, were paid on average $12,000 less than men annually. Women's lives were massively changed because of Betty Friedan, in 1963 Friedan wrote a book called “The Feminine Mystique” this book was a non-fiction book which highlighted the widespread unhappiness in the USA about how women were being treated, a quote taken from. the book read; “A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination” this showed that women only wanted to be equal and in no way superior to men. Other influential women such as Ti-Grace Atkinson fought for women's rights however she was much more radical – she influenced celibacy, lesbianism and female separation. Luckily, women had big powers such as president Kennedy helping them through, Kennedy set up the PCSW (Presidential Commission on the Status of Women) this commission was charged with “the responsibility for developing recommendations for overcoming discriminations in