working-woman in WW1 drastically changed due to the loss of men in the home-environment. The world changed the day WW1 began. War broke out and men were sent to fight as soldiers in a war. Women were left to support and to care for the families that had been left behind. War brought much change to the world, especially to women. Women worked to support the families that had been left at home and suffered through the losses that the war brought them. The role of the working-woman in WW1 drastically changed
ethical issues in the two artworks; Woman with Dead Child, by Kathe Kollwitz and The Night, by Max Beckman. These artworks both express war time themes, including dark imagery of what the war brought among the people, this addresses the social issue of post-traumatic stress because of war and the ethical issue of unmoral decisions being made during the war period. Woman with Dead Child is a very emotive painting with a weeping woman holding her dead child and darkness consuming the figures. The night
happened when five women from Alberta fought legally an politically to have women recognized as people under the BNA Act. Women up until that point only had the same rights as men in that they would receive the same penalties as men would. Many people found it unfair that women could only receive the penalties and negative rights that men had, but be denied the positive rights, such as the right to run for political positions. This all changed in the 20’s however when a group of 5 women decided to challenge
In his seminal novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the lives of his characters to illustrate the monumental impact America’s brief engagement in WW1 had on the nation’s economy, participants and supporters back home. He makes particular notice of the impact on women and veterans. However, it is his delineation of the extent to which values considered sacrosanct in the American ideology in the pre-war era, and particularly in his own native Midwest have been torn asunder by the stark
colonization of Africa and the theorizing of racial and national oppression. Themes such as politics, psychology, liberation, cycle of violence, history and race are all seen throughout the book. Topics such as the psychological effects of men and women in the conquered countries and the way that recently independent countries shape their culture and nation, are all examined in the chapters of the book along with other important topics. In the first chapter, Frantz Fanon splits the colonized world
discrimination, in the terms and conditions of employment, between men and women. Reid (1975) understands that legislation aims for the acceptance of difference as they actually exist and the adaptation of social norms affecting work and career needs to the needs of personal fulfillment without differentiation on sex lines. The Equal Pay Act 1970 incorporates this because it