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