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I noticed many of these women working as secretaries or doing work in the clerical field. Two worked as secretaries in the government and these were jobs that were deemed as "acceptable" by society. This seems to follow the trend of what we learned in class in that women worked, but they were often confined to specific jobs. Nursing seemed to be another one of those "accepted" positions and through the papers, it seemed as if it was very female dominated. It seems like after and around and during the war, women were confined by societies expectations to specific jobs, but over the years, thos restrictions lifted and they have spread their skills. -afrisk | I noticed many of these women working as secretaries or doing work in the clerical field. Two worked as secretaries in the government and these were jobs that were deemed as "acceptable" by society. This seems to follow the trend of what we learned in class in that women worked, but they were often confined to specific jobs. Nursing seemed to be another one of those "accepted" positions and through the papers, it seemed as if it was very female dominated. It seems like after and around and during the war, women were confined by societies expectations to specific jobs, but over the years, thos restrictions lifted and they have spread their skills. -afrisk | ||
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| + | I found a great variety in the interview papers that we as a class created. In some interviews the women held tight to those typical roles of women in the early 20th century as mothers and wives. Others challenged the trends, either by fate or their own ambitions and tried to maintain an independent and family lifestyle at the same time. I noticed a pattern in the lives of the women as they fought the battle of being a working women or a housewife. These were the two extremes to being a woman, and many tried to have both but more times than not returned to being a housewife in the long run. A few challenged the trends of being a “normal” housewife by either unintentional manner’s like Rowley’s and Smethurst’s interviewee’s did by trying to balance being a mother and an independent women. Both, while having children, continued with their education and motherly duties. Other’s such as Leckner’s interviewee and my grandmother conformed to the prescribed roles at the time; marrying young, having children, and never working. While even others were neither part of one or the other extreme. Brau’s interviewee was the perfect example of a women who was somewhere in the middle. She did not get married, even after the loss of her finance and earning herself a degree. At the same time though, she took care of the household at a young age and then always took care of family when they fell ill. The experience that stood out to me most was that Brau’s interviewee was seen as “self-fish” when she finally started taking care of herself and spending money on herself. One the most important life lesson’s I’ve learned so far has been to first take care of myself and then others. We as women always put others before ourselves and sacrifice our own happiness. No one should have to do that and that was just what these women were battling with, trying to make themselves and their family happy at the same time; a battle that is still fought on today in the hearts of many women. -Morgan | ||
