<u>Most women entered in the labor force for the first time during WWII.</u> In the US, for instance, many job positions were empty when the war started as, after the draft, many men were forced to join the armed forces and went to the battlefronts either the Europe, to the Pacific theatre of to the North African one.
As production levels had to be maintained for the well-functioning of the country, women occupied such empty positions and kept production processes working. This was the first contact with the labor force for many of them, and it <u>meant a turning point as, along the second half of the 20th century, female employment figures grew spetacularly.</u>
The Voting Rights Act<span>, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, </span>1965<span>, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented </span>African Americans<span> from exercising their right to </span>vote<span> under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.</span>
The founders saw the importance of a strong military to protect the country and its citizens, but they named the President, a civilian, the "commander in chief" of the armed services. They were ever mindful of checking and balancing power, and they did not want a military general to seize the government
