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The table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...
1950-1953: (): Women who were in the Reserves were recalled to active duty.More than 500 Army nurses served in various areas and theaters of the war. [1] [2]Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF, who had already made 250 evacuation flights (23 of which were transatlantic) during World War II, made 175 evacuation flights during the Korean War.
1950s in women's sport (27 C) W. Women in war 1945–1999 (5 C, 132 P) Pages in category "1950s in women's history" This category contains only the following page.
The American scene in the 1920s featured a widespread expansion of women's roles, starting with the vote in 1920, and including new standards of education, employment and control of their own sexuality. "Flappers" raised the hemline and lowered the old restrictions in women's fashion. The Italian-American media disapproved.
African American women involved played roles in both leadership and supporting roles during the movement. Women including Rosa Parks, who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Diane Nash, the main organizer of the Nashville sit-ins , and Kathleen Cleaver, the first woman on the committee of the Black Panther Party .
“Make American Great Again” is his game show segment for turning back our societal clock to 1950’s when only white Christian “hetero” males had rights. Women and Blacks had no say in ...
United States Information Service poster distributed in Asia depicting Juan dela Cruz ready to defend the Philippines under the threat of communism, 1951.. In the cultural history of the United States during the Cold War, domestic containment was the notion that women's main role is in the home, while men work to provide for the family in order to keep a stable home environment and uphold ...
Kamala Harris hit back at Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for suggesting that the vice president isn't humble because she doesn't have biological children.. In a conversation on the Call Your ...