User:Bethyuds/sandbox

I plan on adding a lot of new information to the section on Women's Rights in the Yishuv, under the British Mandate. Technically, the first sentence that has already been written in this section does not fall under the category of under the British Mandate because it discusses a party that emerged in 1919, when the Mandate actually started in 1920. I may look into deleting that first sentence so people aren't confused when they read this article. However, I may still bring up Rosa Welt-Straus, as she was an important pioneer during this time. I will first start off by introducing the topic on a broader level. Right now, the article jumps right in to what the first nationwide women's party was in the New Yishuv under the British Mandate. However, I want to start off by saying where these pioneers came from, and why they came. For the first sentence, I will use one of the articles I chose called The Complexity Identity of Religious-Zionist Women in Pre-State Israel and I will talk about pioneer women who came to Israel with the purpose of rebuilding their land and with Zionist motives. Although this article mainly focuses on the Religious Zionist women, it also discusses some aspects of the secular women in the Yishuv. I will tie in some aspects of the Religious women because they fall under the category of women living in the Yishuv, under the British Mandate. Next, I want to discuss the jobs available to Women during this time. I plan on using Women in the Yishuv Workforce for that information Next, I want to add when the Women Workers' Council was established.

Many women who immigrated to Israel came out of national Zionist motives who wanted the same rights as men and wanted to rebuild their land. In 1919 the first nationwide women's party in the New Yishuv (the Union of Hebrew Women for Equal Rights in Eretz Israel) was created, and Rosa Welt-Straus, who had immigrated there that year, was appointed its leader, as which she continued until her death. The constituent assembly was voted upon in 1920 and 14 women were elected out of the three hundred and fourteen delegates. As well as the increase in the number of women filling public positions, the rate of women participating in the labor force increased steadily during the British mandate period in the Yishuv. With that being said, the employment opportunities at the beginning of the mandate period were very low and women were mainly limited to typical female occupations because the only other option would be to work in construction, which only pioneer women committed to as part of their feminist-nationalist outlook because those roles were considered inappropriate for women. Not only were non-religious women fighting for equality, but so were religious women. Female religious Zionists were faced with double the amount of barriers than a non-religious female Zionist because they were rejected from religious society because of their gender and they were rejected from secular society because of their religiosity In 1926 the haredim, who preferred not to face the possibility of a plebiscite, left the yishuv's Assembly of Representatives, and that year an official declaration was made (ratified by the mandate government in 1927) confirming "equal rights to women in all aspects of life in the yishuv - civil, political, and economic."[11]