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Women in Baseball. The Changing Roles of Women in WW2. Before WW2, women were in traditional roles – wife, mother, homemaker. Women’s roles in the workforce were often limited to nurses, teachers or domestic work. Then an event occurred on Dec 7, 1941 that changed everything. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Women in Baseball
The Changing Roles of Women in WW2
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Before WW2, women were in traditional roles – wife, mother, homemaker
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Women’s roles in the workforce were often limited to nurses, teachers or domestic work
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Then an event occurred on Dec 7, 1941 that changed everything
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This event signaled the United States’ entry into WW2
President Roosevelt addresses Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Thousands of young men
volunteered or were drafted
into the service
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As time went by, more and more men went into the service
• But this meant that the men were leaving their jobs to go fight.
• This started to affect the war industries’ production
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FDR encouraged the nation to increase the output for the war effort in his Arsenal for
Democracy speech
He said we must “discard the notion of “business as usual”
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Posters like these helped to encourage women to work- and slowly change
the negative attitude towards women working
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Women began to enter the workforce in greater numbers, especially in heavy industries
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Women soon were working in many different fields
Pilots
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As more and more men joined the war, women were needed to fill every kind of job
From driving taxicabs
To driving milk trucks
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By 1942, the draft had forced many minor league baseball teams to fold
• Soon, major league baseball was affected by the numbers of men being drafted
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In 1943, Philip K Wrigley was able to get enough backers to start the All American Girls’ Baseball
League
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Women from highly skilled softball teams from Canada and the US were recruited
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Not only did the players have to be highly skilled, their femininity was of utmost
importance
The players were required to attend charm school and etiquette classes
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The players’ uniforms were designed to be ultra-feminine and modeled after figure
skaters’ outfits
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The league’s popularity peaked in 1948
Ten teams attracted 910,000 paying fans.
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Many of the more popular players attracted large followings
Dottie Schroeder was the only player to play in the league in all of its seasons
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Mary “Bonnie” Baker was featured in Life Magazine
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However, the league’s popularity began to decline in the following years
• Teams began to disband in 1950• Part of the reason for this was the advent of
televised Major League Baseball games
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The league was finally disbanded in 1954
• Organized baseball formally banned women from signing professional contracts with
men’s teams in 1952, and the prohibition is still in effect.
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• The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League gave over 600 women
athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball and to play it at a level never before attained. The League operated from 1943 to 1954 and represents one of the most unique
aspects of our nation's baseball history.
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• Created by:
Margaret Shields and Pamela Jane Leman TAH, Spring 2009