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Society{at}feminism.is.invalid says...
>
> "whyzard"  wrote in message
> news:1107820919.875752.114490{at}f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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> > In America, the women got the oppurtunity
> > to leave home when all the men left
>
> Correction: WERE SENT
>
> > for war and factory jobs offers were
> > for the taking.
>
> Should'a sent the wimmins into battle instead,
> izzat what yer arguin' for whyzard?
>
> Oh and don't forget the fact that even with all
> the enticements of gov't sponsored workplace
> child care etc. of the WWII era US efforts
> to recruit women into the workplace, the
> average "Rosie the Riveter" stayed on the job
> for no more than 3 months.  Then she bailed
> out and went back to housewifery and full-time
> mothering.  So, you can't use the USA's WWII
> experience as feminist fodder -- well, not
> without doing the usual feminist pre-processing
> of Reality Distortion (tm) of course.
>
Actually,  most US women during WWII never left the
home:

"Anyone who spent even the occasional night at the movies between 1942
and 1945 was treated to newsreels of heroic nurses and patriotic female
riveters. Nobody went to movies about women loan officers. But the
"average" American woman was neither nurse, nor riveter, nor even
banker. She was a housewife. She received public attention as a gold
star mother, or a noble young wife bravely seeing her husband off to
war. Indeed, some eight million American women did have a child,
overwhelmingly a son, in the service. But far fewer wives had husbands
at war. Only 8 percent of all American married women had husbands in the
military between 1942 and 1945. Obviously for those who were young,
especially for wives in their twenties, that percentage rose
dramatically. But despite the impression given by print and movies, the
"typical" American wife during WWII neither worked outside the home nor
suffered the absence of her husband. The average American family
remained intact during the war, experiencing steep increases in family
prosperity."

http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/womens_studies/womlab.asp

BTW,  this report also highlights how the government sometimes skewed
the reporting a bit:

"At WWII's onset the federal Women's Bureau had produced hundreds of
reports about its investigations. Many remain classics, still consulted
often by scholars. Like the records on these microfilms, all contain a
wealth of data and information about women workers often unattainable
through any other body of documents. Someone reading these records of
bureau investigations prior to the Second World War would learn a good
deal, of course, but the reader would not necessarily receive a truly
accurate impression of the nature of the American female labor force.
Such a reader would probably conclude that since WWI, most American
female workers had toiled in dangerous sweatshops
or factories. Especially in its investigations conducted during the
Great Depression, the Women's Bureau neglected the significantly
increasing percentages of middle class women, even married middle class
women, who began to work for pay."


Mark Borgerson

(whose mother,  like most women employed in war industries during
WWII, worked as a secretary --at Lockheed in Burbank.  Paperwork
paralleled production increases.)


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