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The film is focused on recognizing the contributions of American women serving as human computers during WWII, six of whom went on to program one of the earliest computers, the ENIAC. [2] Their work helped the United States improve the accuracy of weaponry as most conducted ballistics analysis. [3] The film officially premiered on November 1 on ...
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film and the first movie made by Connie Field, about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally ...
The table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...
The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities. Women entered into the mainstream middle-class experience, but took on a gendered role within society. Women typically took classes such as home economics, "Husband and Wife", "Motherhood" and "The Family as an Economic Unit".
American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. Their services were recruited through a variety of methods, including posters and other ...
However, the incremental gains in income and societal status that women of color made during the 1940s had long-term effects on feminist thought. By 1950, the wage gap between white and African American females narrowed by 15%. [27] Opposition to domestic roles began to crop up in the late 1940s as more women were encouraged to become ...
Seal Island (film) Seeds of Destiny; A Ship Is Born; Show Business at War; Siege (1940 film) The Silent Village; Since Pearl Harbor; Snow Capers; So Much for So Little; Soldiers All; Soldiers of the Sky; South of the Border with Disney; Squadron 992; Suggestion Box; Supervising Women Workers; Swedes in America; Symphony of a City
Pages in category "Documentary films about women in the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .