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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 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".
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 ...
Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
Esther Bubley's documentary photograph of a woman being taught to drive a streetcar for the Capitol Transit Company in Washington, D. C. U.S. women also performed many kinds of non-military service in organizations such as the American Red Cross and the United Service Organizations (USO). Nineteen million American women filled out the home ...
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 ...
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
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) – biographical drama film about Paul Reuter, the man who built the famous news service that bears his name [1] [2]; Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) – biographical historical drama film depicting the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States [3]