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Women In World War I

Women of the United States gained status in their lives both job/society oriented as well as in their influence on governmental influence in World War I. Throughout the United States before World War I, women were viewed as a lower "class" of people, as the inferior of men, however, during the war when women were needed to do the jobs of men who left for the war, their influence in both society and government spread and gained them a lasting status in the US.
Through their requirement to take over the jobs of men as the men were in the war, women gained new and exciting jobs, as well as influence in society. During World War I, women replaced men in peaceable jobs, which included ...

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most honorable status in society they ever received as Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was accepted as the first woman in the House of Representatives. In 1920, women composed 23.6% of the labor force, more than ever in American history, and beside that, these women were married with families, and had taken over their husband's jobs in factories as well as in big business. Formed in June of 1920, was the Women's Bureau, a federal agency designed to report on the conditions of women working industrial jobs, as well as to promote the welfare of women in the workforce. Also during the 1920's, women formed the WTUL (Women's Trade Union League) which fought to improve the conditions of labor for women. The WTUL fought that a legislation based on women's position as mothers could not be used to threaten women workers in as much as restricting their right to access certain jobs. By the early 1920's, women in all but five states had a upheld a schedule for working women of a ten-hour ...

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