Our silhouette is comparing women in World War II (WWII) to December 3rd, 2015 when all combat jobs were made open to women in the military. The silhouette shows the struggle that women have gone through to get equality in the military and how much progress has been made because of their hard work. The main reason that we chose both of these is because these two events are considered huge steps in women’s history. When WWII came around, they needed women to fly planes, be medics, and other jobs. It was finally okay for women to be in the army. But until December 3rd of this year, women didn’t have all military jobs open to them.

            When women were in the military, they were allowed barely any jobs, almost none of them were in action. But when WWII started demanding more soldiers, the amount of men that could fight started diminishing, leaving important jobs needed open with no one to fill them. Since they were running out of soldiers, they went to the women to fill those spots, creating an organization called Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
On December 3rd, 2015, an article was put up on the webpage for CNN News. The headline, “Military Opens Combat Positions to Women”. The military beforehand had only a very slim amount of combat jobs open to women but making it extremely hard for women to get the that position. Now that the combat positions are open for women, they are allowed to do what they’ve been fighting for. For these reasons, we wanted to show how far women have come in the past years through artwork, hoping to make it emotional but also an actual piece of art.

            

Things that are the same when it comes to these events is availability of jobs towards women. In WWII, they opened up jobs to women because they needed spots filled. When they opened up all combat jobs in the military, it made it even more available towards women. The change between them are that with the second event, women are already allowed into the military, though not all jobs are available to them. The next thing that the military should do in terms of equality in the force would be to try and end the discrimination. Men still don’t like the idea of women being in the forces, thinking that women are too “delicate” or “gentle” to be fighting wars.