Title: 20th Century History / Womens Rights
Headings: Womens Rights
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Womens Rights
American Women's Rights in the 20th Century
The 60's and the 70's
The 80's and the 90's
Footnotes

Content: The 30's
In the 30's the Ninety-Nines undertook projects such as putting up landmarks for pilots to navigate by. These landmarks were taken down during World War II. This was the first project that was thought up by women, planned by women and directed entirely by women. The Ninety-Nines continued on to work in the army during World War II and
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it still exists today. The 40's
In 1941 the United States joined World War II. Since so many men were being sent overseas to fight as soldiers and because so many jobs were open, people were needed to fill these jobs. Many of these people were women. Besides filling men's jobs in factories, almost 300,000 women worked in the navy and army as nurses, typists and secretaries. A symbol of working women was Rosie the Riveter, a character from a song that soon came to represent working women, especially women in physical labor jobs. From 1940 to 1944 the number of working women rose 57%.