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These sources disagrees with you: >Women veterans, it turned out, were even more interested than their male counterparts in obtaining a college degree; more th
by desdiv 7y ago
These sources disagrees with you:
>Women veterans, it turned out, were even more interested than their male counterparts in obtaining a college degree; more than 19.5% of 332,178 eligible women veterans elected to attend college after the war as compared to 15% of 15 million eligible male veterans.
[0] https://www.womensmemorial.org/history-highlight https://www.womensmemorial.org/history-highlight
>African Americans and women were entitled to the same benefits as white men under the GI Bill, but often faced difficulty trying to claim their benefits due to discrimination.
[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera/postwar-era/a/african-americans-women-and-the-gi-bill https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera...
To summarize:
1. Women veteran had the same education benefits as their male counterparts under the law.
2. However, women veteran faced discrimination when trying claim their benefits.
3. Despite the discrimination, women veterans still managed to attend college at a higher rate than male veterans.
- freddie_mercury 7y agoWAACs and WASPs wore military uniforms but were designated as civilians and didn't were counted as veterans until 1977 when Congress retroactively granted them veteran status.