The expectations of a woman’s role in society in the 1800’s started to change. Some played the role of ladies and others, like Martha Jane Burke also known as Calamity Jane (1852? -1903), had their own ideas of what they wanted out of life. Calamit

In earlier years women were not to be involved with anything that would allow them to voice their opinion. They knew what their opinion had meant to the men and that was close to nothing, unless it was behind closed doors. This ideology stayed pretty much the same until women started to get involved in local movements, such as the Woman Suffrage movement. Women wanted their voices heard in are male predominate society. Another such movement was the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which was organized in 1874. These women wanted their men to keep away from the liquor and stay at home more to be husbands and fathers. Here was a beginning to the gender role changes yet to come.

The 1900’s came along and we still attempted to play out the roles that society had expected. Then, World War I broke out and America needed all the help she could muster. For the first time in history women were allowed to join the armed forces. True, they could only join the reserves and do menial type jobs, but they were stepping into uncharted waters. This brings a question to mind, if the women were away in the reserves who was at home taking care of the family and house hold? Could it have been the men? With the start of World War II women were once again called upon to fill a mans role and the Woman’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was established in 1942. In 1943 it became a component of the U.S. Army and was renamed Women’s Army Corps (WAC). No longer were women expected to stay at home, but were being recognized as somewhat of equals in the work force.

The 60’s came along and along with it men grew their hair long and women cut theirs short. Some times it was hard to tell the difference between a man and a woman from behind. The women’s liberation movement came about. Women were l

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