Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roundly Das Schwarze Korps rapped those who think the present return to corsets, bustles, "ribbons, lace and pleats" would fill the bill. Corsets are bad for women's health, especially if pregnant. As for hats: "How could a woman look well with an odd Australian stork perched on a beer mat on top of her head?" But the editors pulled their punches to meet feminine critics, explained earnestly: "All this is no fulmination against lipstick, powder and silk stockings; quite the contrary. . . . Every woman should be beautiful; every woman should have the opportunity to accentuate her natural charms...
...past ten years, Japanese women have been bearing between 2,000,000 and 2,200,000 babies a year. The net annual population increase (births minus deaths) has hovered around 900,000. Government statisticians recently got a shock when they audited vital statistics for 1938. Births had fallen by 230,000, were 210,000 below the ten-year average. Simultaneously the death rate had increased, leaving a net population gain of only 668,519. Furthermore, war casualties, which are too holy to be reduced to statistics, were not included in the death total. The War Office has announced war deaths...
Alarmed by the sudden drop, the Government has been urging women to marry early, bear often. Alarmed, too, by the gaps left by warriors departed for China, it has urged women into jobs. On farms they have virtually supplanted men. Factories, particularly heavy industries, are hiring more & more...
...conspicuous sight in Japanese streets nowadays are crowds of housewives in khaki smocks or calico aprons-uniforms of the Women's Patriotic Society (750,000 members) and of the Women's Organization for National Defence (4,500,000 members). Their activities include Banzai parties for departing soldiers, visiting military hospitals to "comfort" the wounded, taking part in anti-British rallies...
Wartime emergencies have worked a near revolution in the position of Japanese married women. Traditionally homebodies who brewed tea and arranged flowers, they have found to their surprise and delight that they can walk in the streets unashamed, can even do men's work...