Journal Entry #5

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• During World War II, many women got the chance to work. The women were having jobs dealing with cars because of the war. Though sometimes married women would not get hired.
  
• There were more and more jobs available for women as time went by. People were now realizing that having women working to could be beneficial.
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt was the first lady and first women to have a public career and life. She fought for rights and was hands, feet, ears and all the help to the president. It is unknown whether she was gay or not. "But by now, few of them will dispute her status as one of the greatest women who ever lived" (Krull 108).
  
• American women started voting in 1920. Women had limited rights. Their rights were so limited that even though there was discrimination, the right to vote was giving to black males before women or white women.
  
• "Bella Abzug was the first woman ever elected to Congress" (Griffith 111).
  

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• Who was the first person who publicly acknowledged women?
  
• Who gave the women their first job?
  
• What did the men in Congress say when Abzug was elected?
  
• What would have happened if a black women was elected instead?
  

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• Helm (Kuhn 100): a wheel that stirs a ship
  
• Clerical (Kuhn 100): doing the work of a clerk
  
• Teeming (Krull 105): abounding with something (people)
  
• Prominence (Krull 106): standing out
  
• Galvanized (Krull 107): to stimulate
  
• Formidable (Griffith 111): causing fear
  
• Absenteeism (Griffith 112): frequent absence from work
  

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• "All in all, women began to sense what they were capable of doing if given the chance; they saw new places and glimpsed new possibilities for their lives" (Kuhn 100). Woman vs. Self.
  
• "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" (Krull 108). Symbolism.
  

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• As the time goes by, women are getting more rights. Though their rights are still limited they are living a bit happier because sometthing is better than nothing.