WWII+Research+and+Symposium+SDAS

__**World War II project**__

 * Primary Sources:**


 * "Some professional women faced the added difficulty of competing with men for education and jobs . Admission to medical and law schools remained extremely difficult and, for the most part, reserved for men."**

-During this time it didn't matter who you were if you were a women. If you wanted an educational job they would treat you no different from someone who wasn't educated. You could be that smartest person in your school and they still wouldn't let you into a medical or law school, due to the fact that most of them were reserved for men. And if you did get into a school you must have had an extremely difficult time getting in. That's why it was an uneven advantage for men to get jobs.


 * "Despite the women who served as yeomen (female) in World War I, the navy refused a 1941 army request for support of a joint congressional bill to create women 's auxiliaries. However, naval leaders had already seen a manpower shortage on the horizon, which loomed closer in the months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Accordingly in early 1942 they persuaded Congress to establish not an auxiliary but a Navy Women 's Reserve, to be called WAVES ( Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services), and a Marine Corps Women 's Reserve, members of which were to be called Women Marines."**

-Even though there were some women in World War I, doesn't mean World War II would be the same. Thats exactly what that NAVY had thought. The only reason they got in was because of the shortage of men. What they did was made it so that they weren't in an auxiliary they were call the WAVES ( Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services). So to me it's saying the NAVY didn't really want that women but they had to let them in due to the fact that there were running low on manpower.


 * "Class II I: Jobs in which women are not as good as men, but can be used effectively when need is great, such as war time. Example: most of the jobs in motor transport--men are better as motor mechanics and even as drivers when the equipment is heavy and the job demands loading and unloading as well as driving, as it often does; most of the "mechanical" and "skilled" jobs ; supervisory and administrative jobs." **

-During World War II they classified jobs into classes (class I, class II ext.) to know were the women would fit in. This class talks about jobs in which women are not as good as men. Pretty much most of that mechanical and skilled jobs were just for men. Also they thought that the women weren't capable of supervisory or administrative jobs. Just from them to classify jobs just shows how the women were not treated equal.


 * Facts: **
 * The U.S. Agricultural Extension Service coordinated a program to train 750,000 women at agricultural colleges
 * it was clear that women would need to be enrolled to serve alongside men if the problem was to be resolved
 * Class IV: Jobs in which women cannot or should not be used at all.
 * The most appropriate jobs for women included clerical task and teaching.
 * They (doctors) ranged from newly trained men and a few women
 * The U.S. Army never accepted women as pilots in WWII
 * Although between September 1945 and November 1946 2.25 million women voluntarily left their jobs and another million were laid off
 * Most black servicewomen were in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps or, later, the Women's Army Corps (WAC) because the other services refused to admit them.
 * The Marine Corps accepted its first black women only after the war, in September 1949
 * (WAVES) banned from overseas service until the final months of war