Women During The Early Years - 1907 Words

Loh Carmen Women studies 101w 05/24/2016 Final essay Women play an important role in the wartime. In the early years, women are usually working inside of house and men usually work for outside from house. But women start to work outside like men when the movement has been happening and women want to prove that they can as capable as men. So they start to fight for their right to get the life that they want. There are many wars help women to change their ways of life like World War II, Revolution, civil war and etc. Those wars were let women get power and war have affected gender roles and the experiences of women throughout US history. The ideals of the American Revolution enthused women for equality, freedom and freedom that would†¦show more content†¦In 1861 to 1865, there was a war called a civil war. Before the civil war, the feminist movement has gathered, and it happens continuously after the end of the war. In the civil war, women are playing an important role in the war. Women are work as a nurse, spies, and soldiers. In the beginning, women cannot vote for anything. Women also cannot own their property right. If a woman was married, she must give her moveable things to her husband even the wage or her property things. In an article prove that â€Å"when an Englishwomen married, her husband became the owner of all the movable thing she possessed† (law of domestic relation: marriage, divorce, dower, 57). When women have their children, the only work they can do is taking care children. Man does not really take the responsivity to them. But if a woman was unlucky to get in the divorce, their children also does not belong to them. This is why women want to get their right. The war start, women are having some chance to work outside as war service. Before that, women are not allowed to work outside, they only do some domestic work like cooking, cleaning, and agriculture work. During the war, women are working as a nurse, spies to help the soldiers when the battle start. They also cooking to help out the hospital, and the camp for the men that to have enough power to fight. They are also doing the laundry works.