A League of Their Own

This week I watched the movie "A League of Their Own" starring Geena Davis and Tom Hanks. The movie involves women being asked to leave the kitchen and go to work as baseball players while their men are away at war. If the women made the teams they were asked to put on a show for the people while playing America's pasttime. They were expected to create good ticket sales and play for a crowd. This movie displays how society believed that a woman's place was in the kitchen cooking and cleaning. People believed that men were the only ones who should be working and that a woman was simply a homemaker whose jobs was to take care of the children.
At the end of the movie the men begin to return from the war overseas and many people believed that women's baseball was no longer needed and that the women were to return to the kitchen. However, a few people stood up and said that women were asked to help the nation by working and that it is not right to send them back home. This ending displays how society's views changed over time and how women came to be respected as part of the working class.