HOW SOON DO YOU THINK FEMALES WERE

ALLOWED TO JOIN THE MILITARY?

1
STAR FERNANDEZ

INDEPENDENT
RESEARCH I G/T

HOWARD HIGH
SCHOOL

MS. MARY CURTIN

OVERVIEW Raise awareness of the
historical process
Acknowledge significant
figures that contributed to
make society as it is today
Discover hardships and
solutions unique to the
integration of female soldiers

3
BACKGROUND

President Harry Truman, 1948, Women's Memorial

Restrictions
WAC training center, 1942, Women in Military Service For America Memorial
Foundation

4
 "That is what
government of the
people, by the
people, and for the
people means, and
women are people
equally with men"
-Edith Nourse Rogers, QuoteHD

United States' Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, History, Art and Archives
United States House of Representatives
5
 First WAAC
director
created
procedures and
policies of
recruitment

Oveta Culp Hobby, Women in the Army

6
WAC recruitment Poster, 1968, Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical WAAC recruitment poster, Rutgers School of Art and
Project Sciences 7
 COURT CASES
1973: FRONTIERO
V. FERGUSON
1976: CRAWFORD
V. CUSHMAN

Virginia Manzi honorable discharge papers for pregnancy, 1945,

Women in Military Services for American Memorial Foundation 8
 1967: repeal of
the Public Law
90-130
General Margaret
Margaret A. Brewer, Marine Corps Foundation A. Brewer
inspected
womens welfare,
clothing, and
other aspects
Sgt. Betty Adams, 1965, Soldiers Official United States Army magazine
9
 First WAC promoted
to general in 1970

Elizabeth P. Hoisinton, Kansas Secretary of State

10
 6888th Central
Postal Directory
Battalion:
first sent to front
of U.S. lines

African American officers and WAC, America and World War II

11
 2013: include
women into the
combat roles in
2015: Marine
Corps study
found that males
were better
overall combat
efficient
Bias
Leon Panetta, Department of Defense

12
 Womens Army Corps gained
Conclusion
equality through .
Positions
Appropriate uniforms
Court cases
The ongoing process
Increasing sexual assaults
investigating physical standards
& effect
13
14


15
QUESTIONS?

16