"I think a lot of women said, Screw that noise. 'Cause they had a taste of freedom, they had a taste of making their own money, a taste of spending their own money, making their own decisions. I think the beginning of the women's movement had its seeds right there in World War Two."
- Dellie Hahne, an educator who worked as a nurse's aid for the Red Cross during WWII
- Dellie Hahne, an educator who worked as a nurse's aid for the Red Cross during WWII
The Women's Movement
Women protesting for equal pay - Pittsburgh
Many people believed that women could do any job a man could, with even more efficiency than the previous workers. Though a majority of the women who had jobs during the war, jobs that were originally the men's, lost them after the men returned home from battle, some women were able to either keep their old jobs, or obtain new ones. But despite how the women proved that they could do these jobs, they couldn't keep them. If they did, the women and men weren't paid equally for the exact same job, the men received higher pay than the women. These women got fed up with the ignorance of their employers. They revolted for the equal pay they deserved in the late 1940's. Due to WWII, and the opportunity our country gave to these women to work, and the fact that we didn't let them keep their jobs, set the stage for the Women's Movement of the 1960's and other movements to come.
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