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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.
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 1948 first edition of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the first of the two Kinsey Reports. The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male [1] (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female [2] (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and (for Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Paul Gebhard and published by ...
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 ...
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines is a 2012 documentary film exploring the concept of heroic women from the birth of the superhero in the 1940s to the TV and big screen action blockbusters of today. [1]
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