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Before World War II, there was persistent and systematic discrimination against women workers. The women working the labor force prior to the war were usually impoverished and minorities. [3] Women who worked outside their homes prior to World War II, had jobs as receptionists, secretaries, and department store clerks. [4]
Several of the testimonies of victims of sexual violence during the Holocaust were by Jewish men and women. [23] Previous war crimes trials had prosecuted for sex crimes, hence war rape could have been prosecuted under customary law and/or under the IMT (International Military Tribunals) Charter's Article 6(b): "abduction of the civilian ...
The Second World War led to another massive recruitment of women for positions vacated by the conscription of men for war. [15] Twice as many women were mobilised as in the First World War, and by 1943 46% of all women aged 14–59 (7.25 million women) were employed in industry, the military and civil defence. [ 15 ]
The decision was decades in the making. Anti-abortion lawmakers and legal groups fought for years for the chance to take away what was a constitutional right for a generation of American women ...
When men head off to war, women take over the jobs they left behind. This causes an economic shift in certain countries because after the war these women usually want to keep their jobs. The shortage of labor force during the Iran–Iraq War enabled women to enter fields of employment that had previously been closed to them and absorbed them ...
The wage gap could trace back to the kinds of computer science jobs women work—more likely to be lower-paying than men—but that only accounts for about a third of the gap, the researchers wrote.
However, “Men of War” is also a blistering critique of U.S. foreign policy that plays like a well-told but unbelievable conspiracy theory. Goudreau had contacts in the U.S. government and ...
Irving Horowitz also distinguishes war from genocide based on who is waging it: “democratic and libertarian states wage war as an instrument of foreign policy…genocide on the other hand, is the operational handmaiden of a particular social system, the totalitarian system,". [12]