In The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan reveals the story of the women who helped win World War II. She starts the book off by giving a little background information on some of the women. The women packed up everything and moved away to a secret city called Oak Ridge. This city was unknown to most of the world. She gives the details on how they ended up in Oak Ridge. They did not know where they were going, or what their job would be, all they knew was they were going to help win the war. Everything was very secretive, they only knew what they needed to know in order to do their jobs. Denise Kiernan takes the interesting stories of multiple women and combines it into one big story. Kiernan believes that the women helped win the war by all of the hard work they did behind the scenes. By reading this book the reader will learn about the fascinating stories of these women and events leading up to World War II. Denise Kiernan’s purpose for writing the book was to share the …show more content…
By reading The Girls of Atomic City the reader can gain knowledge on the women’s history in the war. People who want to learn more about the women in history might find this book useful. Denise Kiernan captures their spirits, commitment, and dedication of the factory workers, secretaries and chemist. She shows everything that went on behind the scenes of World War II, while the men were off fighting. The woman had no idea what they were doing, all they knew is that they were helping win the war quicker. Kiernan did an excellent job portraying the women’s thoughts and attitudes towards their jobs. They stepped up and did what needed to be done in order to win World War II. The Girls of Atomic City is a good example of how women can actually leave a huge impact on the world. Denise Kiernan helped the reader learn about their stories, events leading up to World War II, and what they did to help end the war
Women during World War II became warriors. They overtook and played the men’s role in their household. Before their men went overseas, the norm was for them to get married at a young age. These women started volunteering in war-related organizations in order to support war efforts. When the men left to fight, their women became proficient at things they wouldn’t have dared to do before. The war made a lot of women stronger and opened lots of doors and opportunities. They would manage their finances, be excellent housekeepers, fix cars and do handyman work.
Life used to be very different than how most experience it today. Majority people today are fortunate enough to not have to slave in a factory for twelve hours each night, to afford food and a place to live. During WWI many women were forced into doing so because most of the men were off fighting in the war. Naomi Loughnan was one of those women, who had enlisted in the Munition Army. She tells her story of her experience and paints a picture in ones mind of how life then was very different. Social classes were more divided ,men and women were not used to being mixed in the workplace, and how these women were proud to do lots of hard work to help manufacturer military items in factories for the men overseas, despite
In the years after the Second World War, people created uncountable numbers of historiographical research on various topics related to the war, such as military tactics in battles, individual groups of men during their time in service, and other such subjects. Not much surprise exists then, that women’s actions in World War II eventually would also gain interest and publication for the public, though it did not gain an undivided focus until the advent of women’s and social history grew momentum. Women, despite being half of the world’s population, doubtlessly had acted during the war years, although limited by social gender expectations of the period. As time passes from 1945, more interest in the lives of women and their effect on the war
While, the men were fighting the Germans and the Japanese, women stayed home. The majority of people might say women did nothing in World War II, but they did. They changed history forever by working outside the house (“The Women of”). The women of World War II proved females can be of equal greatness of men by being reliable, hard-working patriots for America. How could the women of World War II change history forever?
After world war two majority of women were forced to leave their jobs and return back to the home. However the war set a foundation for women’s rights while feminism was slowly approaching its way into society. The hard work woman put into the war effort was about to be seen by society. Furthermore during the 1950s women were still viewed as full time mothers but the women’s movement would take place in later years.
Many people have never considered what women were doing in WWII when their husbands left to fight. Their lives weren’t easy or normal during the war. Women had to work just as hard as men, sometimes even more so. In this essay, I will discuss the position of American women before World War II, during the war, and at the end of the war.
Women’s roles change during World War II because men were gone and their responsibilities weren’t being taken care of. The women began working and doing the men’s house chores for them along with their own responsibilities has women(Graves 1-2). The women were the only people who could take the mens places and money was tight. Women were needed to get work done because it
Women had a huge role in the World War II that so many do not recognize. Women were involved in many different jobs that allowed them to step out of the ordinary norm as the “typical housewife”, and dive into fierce hardworking jobs that until then only a man could do. Women jumped into the factories and many different roles that contributed to World War II, because the need for more American workers was crucial.
Kimberly Jensen is a professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University, who dedicates her life to study women in history, a subject that is rather vague in most textbooks. Mobilizing Minerva is set mostly during the Great War of 1914; but, it also travels before and after the war to show the state of women before the war started and after it ended. It takes place in the United States but also explores the other countries affected by the Great War, Belgium, France, and Russia. The purpose of this book is to shed light on the discrimination women faced in the military and how they confronted them head on.
Ever since then women proved that they can work in a man’s workplace and do just as well. Any job that was a man’s, was a women’s as well. Women were soon “the most needed workers of all” according to Brenda Ralf Lewis. Factory workers became known as “the soldiers without guns”. If women hadn’t stepped up to the line, winning the war wouldn’t have been as easy as it was for us. Not only did the women in factories and shipyards have a big part in doing their part in the war contributions, but so did the women who were out on the field fighting alongside with their men risking their very life.
When the war started, women had to take over the jobs of men and they learned to be independent. These women exemplified the beginning of change. Coupled with enfranchisement and the increased popularity of birth control, women experienced a new
In The Things We Carried, We learned that men are not the only one’s that have part of the war but, also that women are part of the war as well. Have you ever thought that you as a women ever wanted to be part of the war? To want everyone in the world believe that a women can also be apart of the war? Well to demonstrate to you there are three young courageous women in The Things They Carried, that want us women to become apart of the war. Back in the 1950’s women had rights to be in the war and to help take care of men that were wounded severely.
The outbreak of WWI saw a number of unexpected changes take place within the common social strata. These changes were prompted by the fact that a new wave of social-thinking was taking shape and eventually affected the manner by which the society reflected itself. While men formed political parties, engaged in planning war schemes and creating economic strategies, women also played an essential and significant role during wartime Europe. WWI women can
In the United States, women played an imperative role that is clearly depicted in American history. Women’s significance was apparent in imperative historical events such as the American Revolution, struggle for independence, and the colonial America. During the American Revolution, women contributed significantly, where they played an active role in the American armies (Wayne & Tiffany 213). In this case, the women participated in the war as soldiers, where they fought alongside men, with the intention of overwhelming nations that took part in the revolutionary war. Women such as Deborah Sampson, Hannah Snell, among many others played an active role (women soldiers) during the revolutionary war. Their active participation in battle accounted for their rise in high military ranks. The likes of Deborah Sampson were named aide-de-camps to revolutionary war generals such as John Peterson.
One of the most important roles that women played, were the increasing large amount of female soldiers fighting in the war. These roles gave women the right to work and serve in armed forces. The jobs that women took part in during this time period made a huge difference in the war, and in turn, WW2 helped expand women’s