Today in Herstory: FDR Calls on Women for More Support in Wartime

[niyad]

Today in Herstory: FDR Calls on Women for More Support in Wartime



April 17, 1943: While asking for even greater involvement and sacrifice by women in our war effort, President Roosevelt noted today that women have more reason than most Americans to want to defeat the Axis powers:

In a profound sense, it is a women’s war. It is a women’s war, first, because we have never before faced an enemy whose pronounced policy has been the degradation of womanhood, whose ultimate design is to build a world where women everywhere will be slaves. (gee, sounds like he is talking about the woman-hating reichwingnutjobs)

In shops and offices, in factories and farms, women are doing men’s jobs, that men may be free to do the supreme job of beating the Axis. Women have played heroic roles in every crisis of our history, but no other crisis has so deeply threatened their freedom, or so urgently demanded their strength.

His remarks, a well-deserved tribute to the women of America who are now doing vast amounts of defense work as well as serving in uniform, received an enthusiastic response from the audience, composed of Daughters of the American Revolution members, now meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/04/17/today-in-herstory-fdr-calls-on-women-for-more-support-in-wartime/

[orpupilofnature57]

1. He was married to one of our most Heroic Americans .

[niyad]

2. she was a most remarkable being.

[Thinkingabout]

3. They called for women to step up and step up they did. Rosie the riveters was born.

It is sad to see after all these years women still earn less than men do.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Deplorable !

[Thinkingabout]

6. What is deplorable about this?

[orpupilofnature57]

7. That women at that point in history didn't get more .

[niyad]

9. deplorable that women earned less then, and still earn less then men.

[Thinkingabout]

11. Maybe the guys was off to war.

[niyad]

12. and that was an excuse for paying women less? so what is the excuse now?

[Novara]

5. Yet the patriarchy is alive and well....

....and still trying to put us back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Republicans keep it alive men and woman.

[niyad]

10. and they keep hoping we are not paying attention.