Part 1 of Essay
Women of the United States gained status in their lives both job/society oriented as well as in their influence on governmental influence in World War I. Throughout the United States before World War I, women were viewed as a lower "class" of people, as the inferior of men, however, during the war when women were needed t ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... as well as jobs that were male-oriented and soon grew to be what we consider in today's society as jobs made for women, as nurses, secretaries, bookkeepers, etc. In April of 1917, women gained the most honorable status in society they ever received as Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was accepted as the first woman in the House of Representatives. In 1920, women composed 23.6% of the labor force, more than ever in American history, and beside that, these women were married with families, and had taken over the ....