If We Must Die, Let It Not Be Like Hogs Haunted And Penned In

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Term Paper Title	If We Must Die, Let It Not Be Like Hogs Haunted And Penned In
# of Words	1725
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs haunted and penned in
          an inglorious spot, while round us bark the mad and hungry
          gods, making their mock at our accursed lot.  Like men we'll face
          the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the wall, dying, but
          fight back!
                    -- Claude McKay

     If you look in an encyclopedia under the heading "Men, Role of" you will not find any entry.  Why is this?  Why is there a special article about women and what they do?  The fact is that women did the majority of the work during World War II, everything from welding to cooking.  However, history tells of kings and presidents, explorers and revolutionaries, but only occasionally mentions a woman.  What men do accounts for most of what goes on in the world today, but the work women did during World War II out - did the work men did during the war.
     When 16 percent of the male work force trooped off to battle, and when immigration dropped off and some aliens returned to Europe to fight for their homelands, business recruited women to fill the vacancies.  Munitions makers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for example, dropped leaflets from airplanes urging women to work in their factories.  Although the total number in the workforce increased slightly, the real story was that many changed jobs, sometimes moving into formally male domains.  Some whit women left domestic service for factories, shifted from

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clerking in department stores to stenography and typing, or departed textile mills, for employment in fire arms plants.  At least 20 percent of all workers in the wartime electrical - machinery, airplane, and food industries were women.  As white women took advantage of their new opportunities, black women took advantage of their place in domestic service and in textile factories.  Overall, most working women remained concentrated in sex - segregated occupations as typists, nurses, teachers, and domestic servants.
     Half a million women were estimated in the year 1942 to be serving their country in war industries.  In some thirty plants they were making small - arms and artillery ammunition, where 40,000 women were employed in the last quarter of 1941, over70,000 were at work by late summer (U.S. Dept of Labor, 3 - 4).  In some areas the women labor force was doubled, in others trebled, and some employed ten times as many women as before.  These were chiefly new jobs, not jobs vacated by men.  Many reports from all parts of the country showed that men called to war s...

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