Feminist pressure drove Pentagon investment in family programs

Evidence

Life overseas had, for example, long been boring for women. One medical officer in the 1950s reported getting a large number of “neurotic complaints from women who had nothing to do all day but visit the clubs.” Women in Okinawa often spent much of their days drinking and losing money in the slot machines that were ubiquitous in clubs on overseas bases. Reacting to the rise of the feminist movement of the 1970s, the Pentagon created programs to address domestic violence, to allow women to collect child support and alimony, and to provide on-base child care. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 443

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Allowing military families overseas aimed to solve fraternization and home-front anger — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 121; Allowing families overseas served to curb fraternization and satisfy U.S. wives’ political pressure; Political pressure from American wives drove the 1945 family-reunification decision — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 121 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Allowing military families overseas aimed to solve fraternization and home-front anger — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 121; Allowing families overseas served to curb fraternization and satisfy U.S. wives’ political pressure; Political pressure from American wives drove the 1945 family-reunification decision — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 121 (+1 more)