Women's Role In The Revolutionary War

Throughout the years women have accomplished many different things. For example, we have gained the right to vote, fly airplanes like, Amelia Earhart, and serve in our armed forces. It’s truly amazing how the rights of women have grown over time. However, women were discriminated against time after time, but we have fought back against it and we have accomplished many incredible things. It all started in the Revolutionary war. Women served as people who did laundry, and cooked. Seamstresses, cooks and laundresses were the most common jobs for women during this war. Women were recruited left and right for these jobs, because they were used to working those types of jobs. Some lucky women even got the opportunity to become “nurses”. Even though
They did this by crocheting socks, and other items to keep soldiers warm. Women saw knitting in a magazine with a caption of, “What can I do to help the war effort? The commonest answer yet found is to knit.” Despite the fact that machine knitting was faster and more efficient, this gave the women at home something to do. When japan struck pearl harbor women had knitted like never before, and even started knitting sweaters and mufflers. We have found that knitting was their immediate response to war. Time Magazine stated that, “The men hardly have time to grab their guns before their wives and sweethearts grab their needles and yarn.” It is said that knitting provided comfort for the men and a distraction for the women while the husbands were fighting in the war. However, not only ordinary women knitted. The First Lady of knitting, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, also knitted in war times. She was often spotted knitting and carrying her designated knitting bag. Even though knitting really occupied women, there was still controversy over why they needed people to knit. The truth is, it did not cost the military any extra money, and there was less wear and tear on the machines. Also, not to mention hand knitted socks lasted longer than machine knitted socks. The American Red Cross, was a great contributor to the knitting era. They supplied women patterns and wool so they could accomplish what they needed to do. Without The American Red Cross, the women would have been nowhere near where they were in their chain of events, and not to mention we would not have all the current knitting/crochet patterns that have came and evolved from the organization today. Although things are different now, people still crochet and knit today. However, the roles of women in war have changed quite a