Roles of US Women in WWII

Hello dear one. Thanks abundantly for such a wonderful post. It is very informative and insightful. You have made great efforts to highlight the plight of women during and after World War II. Even though women still have a long way to go in securing gender equality in the present society, a look at the World War II period clearly shows that great strides have been made towards gender equality. Even though women played a great role in World War II as you have stated, the truth is that successive generations have not learned to appreciate or acknowledge their roles. However, the problem is not associated with World War II alone. Women played a significant role during the American Civil War, yet their contribution is not widely documented or acknowledged. It is a fact that women abolitionists energized the antislavery campaigns by forming their own associations. They made door-to-door campaigns against slavery and even persuaded the public to stop using products of slavery as they were contributing towards its continuation by providing market. Women’s contribution was so significant that Julie Jeffrey referred to them as “The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism” in the book “The great silent army of abolitionism: ordinary women in the antislavery movement.” Despite the overwhelming evidence that women played a great role in fighting slavery, prominent figures in the agitations such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Anthony have hardly received the recognition their male counterparts such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin have been receiving.