Sem2.HW9

Historical Investigation rough draft of Part B:

According to Women, Work, and the Japanese Economic Miracle: The Case of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1945-1975, Japan’s economy has changed positively and affected Japanese women during the 1950s. Cotton factories allowed Japanese women to work in the industry, which were fit for women that wanted short-term employment. Female workers soon became the core label force when they were allowed to work in factories. The change in economy caused the amount of people who started to get an education and the amount of job-offers to increase (Macnaughtan).

Being allowed to work raised the level of women, from being housewives to workers in the cotton industry, but not all of the women in Japan wanted to work (Macnaughtan, Diggs). Confucianism, a widely practiced religion in Japan, put women at a lower level. During the 1950s, Japan and the United States believed that housewives has an important role to a family and society. Most Japanese prefer to follow the traditional ideas, where men go out and earn money while the women stay at home. Japan believed that the family is essential for a stable society, showing the importance of housewives (Diggs).

A Japanese woman is the one in charge at home and has no need to have other responsibilities outside of the house (Diggs). Some women feel their talents should be used somewhere else and not for domestic life, but some people (junior high students) didn’t finish school and started to work (Diggs, Macnaughtan).

From 1950 to 1970, the number of junior high students that left school to go to work was around 48 percent. In the mid-1960s, more males were going to senior high school than females, but by the late 1960s, the amount of males and females going to senior high school was the same. Many high school graduates worked in non-agricultural parts of the economy. Because of the core labor force, the requirements for education were changed. During the postwar period, education requirements became nine years instead of five years (Macnaughtan).

HW8

“Non-violent resistance to injustice was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders.”

In the 1960s, African American students and protesters boycotted Woolworth’s drugstore in Greensboro. After this boycott, other stores were also boycotted. It caused many businesses to lose customers and tension, but didn't cause violence between the blacks and the whites.

The enrollment of James Meredith at University of Mississippi caused the white students to become very angry. On Sunday, September 30, 1962, white students burned cars and destroyed property. Two men were shot and killed on the same night. The ways to resist injustice cause more violence.

HW7

1. Japanese women lives have changed positively during the 1950s. There was work in cotton factories which gave jobs to women that desired short-term employment. Women could have more education and there were also more job offers that allowed women to work.
   
   
2. Japanese women lives didn't change positively during the 1950s. According to Nancy Brown Diggs, "the typical Japanese woman, in contrast, feels that since she is in full charge of the home, she has no need to seek further responsibility in the outside world," which a Japanese woman might think of.
   

Citations:

1. Macnaughtan, H. (2004). Women, work, and the japanese economic miracle: The case
   of the cotton textile industry, 1945-1975.
   
   
2. Diggs, N. B. (1998). Steel butterflies: Japanese women and the american experience.