Women in WWII by Aislynn Pietzyk https://padlet.com/1456488/is1j6b1furc0mu8l en-us 2023-03-08 15:53:04 UTC 2025-11-07 08:19:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Women in World War 2 1456488 https://padlet.com/1456488/is1j6b1furc0mu8l/wish/2510427077
  • World War two was a very crucial point for the women’s movement, with the majority of the workforce overseas, women had to step up and run the country themselves. 
  • women at home were crucial to the war effort, their rationing, production, and participation helped win the war.

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  • Female percentage in the workforce went from 27%-37%
  • This opened the door for women, and helped prove that women could pick up a 'man's' job and do it just as well.

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  • Before the war, women were mostly limited to ‘female’ jobs, but a fourth of American women still worked.
  • 5 million women joined the workforce, even took jobs in defense plants
  • By 1950, 32% of women in America held a job, and half were married.


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  • 350,000 women joined the armed forces.
  • Some drove trucks, became nurses, worked on airplanes
  • Some became chemicals and engineers, developing weapons for the war.
  • Women were even hired for the Manhattan project.

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  • It wasn’t easy, discrimination still existed and finding childcare was difficult
  • Eleanor Roosevelt urged for a government child care facility, and then the Community facilities act of 1942 was passed. 
  • This opened 7 centers, which housed 100,000 children.

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  • Still receiving less money than men for the same jobs
  • They were laid off in mass amounts after the war, even though 75% wanted to keep their jobs

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  • 350,000 joined the armed forces
  • Drove trucks, became nurses, worked on airplanes
  • Some became chemicals and engineers, developing weapons for the war
  • Women were even hired for the Manhattan project

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  • If a woman had obtained a license before War, she could join the airforce
  •  first women to fly American military aircraft
  • WASPS (women's airforce service pilots) 
  • Transported cargo, accumulated over 60 miles in flight distances- freeing thousands of US men. (WASPS) received Congressional Gold Medal- one of the highest civilian honors
  • 1000 served

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  • Eleanor Roosevelt urged for a womens branch- General George Marshall supported it
  • 1942: Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, full military status
  • In the Navy: held the same status as naval reservists 
  • Women’s Army Corps (WAC), Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS)
  • Some were killed in combat

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  • Rosie: a propaganda idol which depicts a strong, yet feminine woman. Women don’t have to be more like men to to ‘men’ jobs, they can be women and still have strength
  • Made to encourage women to take on factory jobs

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  • Ladies still applied makeup and stayed feminine during the course of this work, because there was no need to ration it, and staying feminine helped boost morale
  • African American and Japanese women did not find work easily
  • Japanese women were in internment camps
  • White women did not want African American women working with them

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    https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/a/american-women-and-world-war-ii

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-women-world-war-ii#:~:text=While%20the%20most%20famous%20image,200%2C000%20served%20in%20the%20military.

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