Students+Questions(1,2,3)

**Student Questions:**


 * **Why women did not have the same opportunities of work as men had before?**

Synthesis : Many women in the past didnt had the opportunity to have good job opportunities, only because they tought women only served to do tasks like: Cooking, clining, wash dirty clothes, being good wifes but especially good mothers. Also because it was a custom that women made all of that. it was totally incorrect think that now that women can do the same as man do.


 * During World War II the percentage of American women who worked outside the home at paying work increased from 25% to 36%. More married women, more mothers, and more minority women found jobs than had before the war.**


 * Because of the absence of many men who either joined the military or took jobs in war production industries, some women moved outside their traditional roles and took positions in jobs usually reserved for men. Propaganda posters with images like "Rosie the Riveter" promoted the idea that it was patriotic -- and not unfeminine -- for women to work in non-traditional jobs. "If you've used an electric mixer in your kitchen, you can learn to run a drill press," urged an American War Manpower Campaign. As one example in the American shipbuilding industry, where women had been excluded from almost all jobs except a few office jobs before the war, women's presence went to over 9% of the workforce during the war.**

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 * Thousands of women moved to Washington, DC, to take government office and support jobs. There were many jobs for women at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge, as the US explored nuclear weapons.**

As late as the 1930s, most women did not work outside of their homes. Those who did, faced gender discrimination and low wages. Yet throughout history, women have significantly boosted their local and global economies. In 1836, women factory employees became the first group of American workers to protest labor conditions. Their strike marked a milestone in the struggle for equal rights

[] Because they did not have the preparation they have now indays. It was not customary at that time for women to study to work outside the home, the home is maintained with theearnings of the husband , to educate children. The customwas that women only serve as good wives, good mothers andhousewives especially good. In the measure that wasentering the exigencis came the economic progress and onesalary was not enough total was decided that women explorea career to support the family. Grandmother: Maria Cristina P.

BY: Natalia Naranjo


 * Why didn`t they do something for it?

Question By: Natalia Naranjo

Question by: Alejandra varela
 * Why does there are different opportunities and different treatment in a same working place?