Britches

In the book it talks about how Suze detested the idea of wearing skirts, and how she was more the type to wear pants to placs she went off to. I found this clip that was not only interesting to know, but kinda funny at the end. Turns out that in the 1940's women started the trend of wearing pants during this time. since women were working in the man's world they did go all out.

Women right to vote

Women won the right to vote on August 18th, 1920 thanks to congress passing the 19th amendment. The 19th amendment prohibits any United States citizen be denied their right to vote based on their gender. Surprisingly, the amendment was first introduced in 1878. It took 41 years for the congress to send it to the states for ratification. This correlates to Suze and Dewey in the story. Their school would not allow women to join shop or metalworking classes in their school. Women were still fighting for all their rights during the 1940's

Women's Discrimination Books Found on the Peru State Library Catalogue by Kachiepuff

I found three books on the Library Catalogue that deal with women's discrimination. They may or may not be from the right time period, but most women's discrimination was the same no matter what time period anyways. The titles of the books are "Overcoming Prejudice" by Tracey Baptiste, "From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice" by Anne Firth Murray, and "Almost Astronauts: The True Story of the "Mercury 13" Women" by Tanya Lee Stone.

Pictures of Women at work in the 1940's

As we have learned, roles changed for women in WWII when men went off to fight in the war. I found a website showing women working as mechanics and assembling airplanes. This ties in to the theme of our blog and the book that we read in class. Due to the era, women in the workplace and normally women would have been at home with the kids, not at work. Enjoy!

Actual Women in Science - 1940's

I have been searching and searching for a female scientists known for her work in the 1940's, the era of WSRM. The Franklin Institute has a long list of female scientists dating back to the early 1900's. As fascinating as that is, what about the 40's? Thanks to WWII, I read that there were women programmers from the University of Pennsylvania that developed the ENAIC program which help build speed and accuracy with firing weapons. It was nice to read about career women for that decade. I wonder, if it weren't for WWII, what else would these scholars have done?...

Women and the Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project

From the book we read, Dr. Terry Gordon helped create the Atomic Bomb. I found a link discussing the Atomic Bomb and interestingly enough, no woman was mentioned working on the project.

Tomboy Suze

Suze I saw her very tomboyish but with just a little bit of fem traits

Dewey

If i were to picture what Dewey looked like back in the day i could see here like this

Strike a pose

this link i saw on the many different syles of the 40's and how McCalls patterens and well as Vouge magaizine came into play back int the day really struck me.

Buggle boy

Though i love the fashion of the 1940's the music of the era was actually pretty jumping in the day.
Like the song that we all know by The Andrew Sisters which i think would go well for the music that would be playing in the background of the book,

A New Point Dealing with Women's Discrimination

Here's a link to a little bit on the women's discrimination thing between two individuals looking at history. The highlight is from the Jessica person on the site. It's sad to see that women were told to go home and give up their jobs to the men coming back from war. That whole ordeal was pathetic. I mean, not so much as a "thank you".
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Women-s-History-3085/2008/2/woman-role-1940-s.htm

Working women in 1940

My area of research is working women of the 1940's. I specifically wanted to find women scientists to coincide with the book we read in class. Here is a link showing the different jobs women did do in the 40's.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/decadebydecade/1940s.html

Women and Education

Another area that women started to progress in was their education in the 1940's. This was brought to my attention in Speech class last week when my professor had mentioned Florida State did not allow females to enroll into college until 1941 because of WWII. The men were going off to war and the school needed to keep enrollment up.

I wanted to mention this as I took it for granted, I thought by that year women had the opportunity to further their education. Not the case at all universities.

A different opinion from an unlikely source

In the spirit of playing devil's advocate, I thought I would show an odd clip demonstrating a woman's view on women's rights. One small caveat however, Ayn Rand has a very different view than most women. Being raised in Russia under the communists she obviously has a different slant on issues than us westerners would. Her most famous novel, called The Fountainhead, along with being an extremely right wing opinion, is the basis for her form of philosophy and this response to the question of a woman president is reflective of that. Whether you agree with her or not, this way of thinking lives on to this day. I trust that, in my lifetime, we will break the mold, but I don't see it happening in the near future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpzDdTrw5II

Sixteen goin on SEVENTEEN

If anyone remembers in the book WCRM, you may recall the mentioning of a magazine that we all know of. Either we read it or just see it in the stores in the magazine section. Im talking about Seventeen Magazine. I did not know that the magazine had been around since that time. Turns out that the magazine has been around since September 1944 which would put the story in the right era. Happy 65th Birthday! If anything, I found that very interesting that it's fashion advice has been around since that time. I guess its safe to say they know what they are talking about in the fashion world.

Kerry Washington reading a speech by Sojourner Truth

This is a wonderful example of the beginnings of women's fight for equality. Sojourner Truth was a very powerful speaker and great soldier in the fight for African-american and women's rights. In this clip Kerry Washington gives a stirring and, in some instances, funny performance of an 1851 speech by this renowned abolitionist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4no&feature=related

Publishing videos and pics...etc

Well I need to figure out how to put a visual video or pic up!!! On this page while I type  I see where there is an area to put a link, but does that just put a link for other veiwers to click on or would it actually put it on our blog? That is the question...So that shall be our next question in class I suppose. If anyone else knows, let me know.
                                            Thanks,
                                                   Mattie

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Kachiepuff- The Fireball Against Discrimination

Well, it's time to get my first post out there.

First off, I'm the crazy fireball who has a lot of energy when it comes to women's discrimination. I can say right now that women in the past and in the present face discrimination of every kind imaginable, and I hope our future doesn't look like this. I mean, just reading the book "White Sands, Red Menace" by Ellen Klages is proof enough: Mrs. Gordon having to quit her job and not being able to work with the men. Not to mention all the arguments she has with her husband, and he doesn't really listen. She has it tough. Oh, and let's not forget how Dewey Kerrigan couldn't take the classes she wanted to in high school just because she was a girl. She was forced to take Home Ec. instead of Woodshop and some classes that dealt with math.

test run

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This is so exciting! We made our first blog. There are so many areas our group will be researching and touching base on: fashion, women's discrimination and working women. The book White Sand's, Red Menace introduced us to the many areas of women's rights we were no aware of. Stay tuned for our journey.

The Beginning

And so we have initially started our journey.......WISH US LUCK FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEKS TO COME.  :)