Women had no place in working outside of the home. ... I could not imagine having to stay at home tending to the every needs of my husband. ... Even on walks about the town one would see a woman walking not beside her husband but behind him. ... Politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt was quoted as saying "I am more and more convinced that the great field, the indispensable field for usefulness of woman is as mother of the family. ... She was having such negative feelings about her marriage you would think that she would have done something about it. ...

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The war was a time when many men were called to serve in the military at home and abroad. ... (The Rosie the Riveter Story) These women made a big impact even though they only amounted to about four percent of the skilled industrial workers during the war years. ... Coming fresh into the work, they questioned the way things were being done in a way that the men no longer could. ... (A Mouthful of Rivets pg 130) A quote from Douglass Airview at the announcement of women's entry to production jobs at Douglass Aircraft seems to sum up the spirit behind women on the home front during WWII. ...

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Mallard was told about her husband's death, she was initially emotional, but because of her husband's death she reaped freedom and was over joyed. ... Mallard would have made it home way before the news could reach his wife. ... Mallard emotions towards her husband and that she did not feel as strongly about him as he feels about her. ... "There would be no one to live for in those coming years; she would live for herself." (Chopin 307) This quote is so unbelievably powerful because you have this women who basically feels powerless and has to live for her husband. ...

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