During the time of World War Two, there were hard working women taking over the jobs in industry that were usually held by men. But these women working as welders and miners were not the only women in America. There is a tendency in American history scholarship to generalize. Not only does taught history tend to be nonspecific when it comes to women, in most cases, some women are never mentioned at all. The reasons for this ignorance may include the embarrassment that Americans feel for horrid realities like slavery and internment camps and the fact that our society is male dominant. Whatever the cause may be, it is necessary to reveal the truths of our histories as Americans and as American women.

In the song “Rosie the Riveter”, written by two men, Redd Evans and Jacob Loeb, a woman is described heroically as she is protecting her “Charlie” (husband). The depiction of Rosie the Riveter was to symbolize the working women of the war. Men created Rosie to build excitement for women to want to enter the work force. Essentially, Rosie was war propaganda that lead many women to earn a living and maintain the economy while the men were servin

During the Nineteenth-Century, there were many prostitutes in New York. Some of these women were young and just looking for some money and to get out of a family home. The prostitutes in New York had evolved into an elite group of women selling sex.

However, behind the façade of perfect working situation, there was much conflict between the women workers. Not all of these women earned great wages. Black women were left to do the dirtier less paying positions and weren’t allowed the same privileges as white women. For example, they were not encouraged to use the showering facilities after working hard labor. Black women could not relate to Rosie the Riveter. Rosie’s cause and face represented the causes and faces of fashionable, attractive white women.

When Europeans came to North America, they brought their belief system with them. This was a disadvantage for Native American women. Not only did the Europeans bring germs and disease, they brought Christian based ideas and enforced a male dominant way of life. Many Native Americans were forced to abandon and reject their traditional beliefs to become Christians. With the shift in religion came a shift in gender roles. Native American women were now trapped in a life of limitations like the European women. Of course, there were some women who converted by choice and enjoyed their new faith.

During the same time, there were women who held no similarities with the working women of the 1940’s. For example there were many women forced to give up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. The motive around this movement was to move Japanese Americans away from the public in the name of national security. Although these people were American citizens and did absolutely nothing wrong, the U.S. thought that it was in the nation’s best interest to keep them away from white America. This is just another shameful part of America’s history that was minimized and hardly taught to most children in grade school or high school. The stories of the internment camps are withheld from the normal history class because the history that we are taught was writ

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