https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2017-05-22 20:04:18 UTC 2025-09-24 13:49:16 UTC hello@padlet.com deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173242614   During World War II, women played a crucial role in America as their male counterparts were dispatched on multiple foreign fronts in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.]]> 2017-05-22 20:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173242614 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173243876 With an abundance of opportunities available, women filled the jobs that were mostly occupied by men.  
Many women began working in factories, manufacturing airplanes and working in shipyards; proving that women could perform “men’s work.”  Just as women’s role changed during World War II, it would change after the war was over and continue to evolve even today.]]> 2017-05-22 20:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173243876 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173244749 2017-05-22 20:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173244749 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173245234 “Rosie the Riveter,” created by J. Howard Miller, is one of the common images associated with women during World War II. With her arm flexed and the phrase “We Can Do it!” emanating from her, this illustration was a perfect propaganda tool utilized by the U.S. Government to boost morale and recruit women into workforce. ]]> 2017-05-22 20:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173245234 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173245693 Men returned home and eventually assumed their pre-war occupations that some women were occupying.  This drove women out of the manufacturing and industrial trades they were holding and as the baby boomers boomed, women became full time homemakers.  Women were now expected to stay at home and take care of the kids while the husband went to work to financially support the family.]]> 2017-05-22 20:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173245693 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173246605 2017-05-22 20:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173246605 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173247471 As women were forced out of their wartime occupations and into the domesticity of the new American nuclear family, many women felt disenfranchised]]> 2017-05-22 20:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173247471 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173247611  he 1950s are often identified as the pinnacle of gender inequality as women were denigrated and portrayed as “stupid, submissive, purely domestic creatures.”]]> 2017-05-22 20:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173247611 deluca_carmen20 https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173249116  Organizations like the Woman’s Club of Winter Park were areas where women could associate with each other and were crucial venues for feminists.  Here, feminist groups aimed to “Advance the social, civic, educational and moral welfare of Winter Park, and also to seek cooperation with other similar clubs to promote the work of women throughout the state and nation.]]> 2017-05-22 20:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/deluca_carmen20/xc61g8crrall/wish/173249116