Job+Opportunities

My topic is the men and women job oppertunities diring the dime and the differences between the two.

__**PRIOR KNOWLEGE:**__
 * i know for a fact that during this time period the men and woman didnt have similar rights.... not having similar rights lead to not having equal job oppertunity.
 * **WHO:** men and women during the early 1900's
 * **WHAT:** equal job oppertunity for men and woman
 * **WHEN:** the early 1900's and during WW1
 * **WHERE:** America and Europe
 * **WHY:** The early developement of equalty between the men and women of our country hadnt yet been set, so the women were treated differently than men.
 * **HOW:** They did not have the same rights and equal treatment (women were too good and precious to work the jobs men worked) they couldnt to the hard work....instead they were to stay at home and be "LADYS".
 * **How Did This Impact the Class Topic or Vice Versa?** I think this topic didnt quite influence the WW1 but i think it just might be the opposite way around. Instead...i think that this topic was changed or set differently after the war rather than the war being influenced by this topic.


 * __RESEARCH QUESTIONS:__**
 * **WHO:** What were the differences between the men and the womens job oppertunities then to now today?
 * **WHAT:** Would the oppertunities have never changed based on the WW1 outcome?
 * **WHEN:** Would the view on women be different today based on the outcome?
 * **WHERE:** The united states in the early 1900's


 * __DRAFT:__**

World War 1 influenced the development of job oppertunities by opening up new prospects for women and their rights. In the early 1900's women were expected to play the motherly role of homemaker. Their status and rank depended on their typical duties of the family and the children. These daily chores involved cleaning the house, cooking for the family, caring for the young, sewing for the family, and keeping up the yard. Before the war had begun women were kept out of heavy industries and were to continue their normal roles of being a lady. When the war began the developement of new political rights for women would be forever changed.

When men began to flee to war more and more jobs became open. Filling these jobs wopuld be women and immigrants. Women and immigrants werent paid nearly as much as white men, but they were sure to be paid more that they normally earned on a daily average. "As more and more men were drafted and had to leave their jobs, the U.S. government and various industries were seriously looking for female workers who could replace the open jobs." " women were willing to take more responsible jobs and were becoming not just a substitute labor force, but skillful workers. The government was also in need of thousands of wartime positions open to women to work as government clerks, stenographers, and telegraphers." **__(STRIKE seattle general strikes project).__** Women were beginning to take the jobs as a substitutes labor force and were beginning to turn into skillfull workers. Sometimes the women even worked in dangerous and unhealthy conditions. During World War 1 young women and girls worked as nurses for the men in the war. During this time the government decided that women would have to get more involved in producing food and goods to support the war effort.

The amount of women employed increased over the war time. Before the war there were more than 8 million women in paid occupations. "After the war began, not only did their numbers increased in common lines of work, but as one newspaper stated, there had been a sudden influx of women into such unusual occupations." **__(STRIKE Seattle General Strikes Project.)__** Jobs such as railroad workers, auto drivers, and other machine operators were taken by women. Women flocked to the buisnesses to take the dangerous jobs of the men. They were skillful, knowlegeable learners and they were proud to be helping with the hard work.

Women finally got a chance to go into the navy. "In 1901 and 1908 the establishment of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps opened the door for women in the military but ever so slightly. It wasn't until the United States got involved in World War One that some parts of the government got serious about using woman power." Women who served in hospitals in the U.S and overseas were called Reconstruction Aids. Throughout this time the door began to open further and further, but it would take tuenty three more years untill women could actually be enrolled into the United States Military. After men had returned home from war they found themselves unemployed and out of jobs. Even though