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=Women's advencements in equality during WWII=

Facts

 * 1) During the 1930's and 1940's, married women started to enter the work force and they were slowly accepted as workers. By 1945, the married women outnumbered single working women.
 * 2) The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was establised on May 14, 1942. This was the women's unit in the Army of the United States.
 * 3) Edith Nourse Rogers is commonly known to be the mother of the WAAC. She was the founder of the bill to start the WAAC. She supported equal pay for women and a 48 hour workweek.
 * 4) During WWII 140,000 women served in the WAAC in the United States, and 17,000 women went overseas.
 * 5) During WWII the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard all created women's reserve programs. About 400,000 women served in these regimens, and close to 10 percent of the women held positions as officers.
 * 6) The Army Nurse Corps started with nearly 5,500, but during WWII the number increased to 56,000 women. Only a small number of 215 nurses were killed during WWII.
 * 7) During WWI the Navy Nurses Corps began and had 466 nurses. Then when WWII came around the numbers had grown to 11,000 nurses.
 * 8) About 85,000 Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) served as officers and they were enlisted personel in the United States Navy until the end of WWII.
 * 9) Schools were starting to enroll more women. Almost 30 percent more women started majoring in mathmatics, science, and engineering. Females also made up 14 percent of all medical students.
 * 10) The women who volunteered were mostly white middle-class wives. Volunteer's would work to ration, administer prices, and rents.