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A very surprising trend that I noticed was how easily many of these women would drop what they were doing to get married! Alice Wagner, for example, described the life of Lois Wagner who was attending Mary Washington and quit school in her junior year to get married. This is similar to the person I interviewed who got a highly prestigious grant to do medical research at the Rockefeller Institute for sickle cell anemia and methadone, but met her husband and chose not to attend Rockefeller Institute. These women put so much work towards their education, and they just stop as soon as they got married. That is why I am not surprised that the U.S. Government eventually saw women as a misused resource. – Erin Sanderson | A very surprising trend that I noticed was how easily many of these women would drop what they were doing to get married! Alice Wagner, for example, described the life of Lois Wagner who was attending Mary Washington and quit school in her junior year to get married. This is similar to the person I interviewed who got a highly prestigious grant to do medical research at the Rockefeller Institute for sickle cell anemia and methadone, but met her husband and chose not to attend Rockefeller Institute. These women put so much work towards their education, and they just stop as soon as they got married. That is why I am not surprised that the U.S. Government eventually saw women as a misused resource. – Erin Sanderson | ||
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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 | ||
