Chinkin's Argumentative Analysis

Females worked hard to be able to be granted jobs not fighting in the war, although their toughest battle was achieving positions in combat. Women tried many different tactics to try to increase their chances of being allowed to partake in the fighting. For example, “Women also disguised themselves as men and joined fighting units. Malinda Black joined a North Carolina Unit with her husband…fought together in three battles…She revealed her identity and resigned” (Stanley 11). This was frowned upon for obvious reasons, such as a woman being too weak and too unfit for battle. For many decades men were considered the only ones capable of warfare, Chinkin specifies in his Journal of International Affairs, “This cannot be explained in terms of the
Expectations for men included giving up everything and go fight in the wars. With the newly changing gender norms a man’s role was modified, as well as his views on partaking in combat. Men became wary, almost jealous, of the women fighting for the same position as them. Men who were unfit to fight in combat got viewed as weak and many thought women could easily replace them in their work, “Even those men too young or old or ill to wield arms were expected to support the war” (Grayzel). Eventually men began to grow appreciative of women’s efforts to support the war. They realized together they could achieve more than they could alone. Susan grayzel explains that over time men counted upon the changes in gender roles towards women to further their success. Despite restricting gender roles being aimed towards women, men were affected too, causing daily lives for both genders to
Women have been granted the ability to be a steady breadwinner for their families. Dennis Cauchon explains in the article “An American Role-Reversal”, in a census conducted about the traditional roles of men and women it was found that, “when one spouse works full-time and the other stays home, it's the wife who is the sole breadwinner in a record 23% of families… When the Census started tracking this in 1976, the number was 6%” (Cauchon). Women’s work has achieved them a seventeen percent increase in representation of income, over slightly more than 30 years. The opportunities created for themselves has increased and continues to increase. “Women in the Military” declares, “The broad changes will open more than 200,000 jobs on ships and aircraft that have previously been held by only men. These jobs are important for advancement to the highest military ranks so women's opportunities for promotion should increase” (Stanley 111). Two hundred thousand military job openings available to women is partially due to the improving education for women. Dennis Cauchon proves the education value for women is improving, “The college gap is driving startling changes in financial equations between women and men. Women earned 57% of bachelor's degrees, 60% of master's degrees and 52% of doctoral degrees in 2010” (Cauchon). Gender roles were a major limitation on a