Patriotism was used as a major recruiting rig to lure women into the industrial workforce.
The propaganda worked as eight million women joined the American labor force between 1940 and 1944.
These women not only entered the workforce in record numbers but they also entered the military.
The US Navy startedrecruiting female sailors called WAVES, an acronym for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
Surprisingly, the propaganda changed as the war came to an end.
After the war, images appeared in publications depicting men and women in traditional pre-war roles.
According to Lewis and Neville, “Women’s images quickly underwent a drastic retransformation after the war.
Her husband is a flight instructor.
Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts.
Her husband and brother are in the armed service.
The “Vengeance” (A-31) was originally designed for the French.
It was later adopted by the R.A.F.
and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces.
She’s one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant.
Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif.
They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories.
Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children.
Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers.
Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army.
Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts.
Son is Second Lieutenant, Son-in-law, Captain in Army.
Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs department.
Women war workers, circa 1942. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. in February 1943.
Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work.
Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew.
Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe.
Her two brothers and husband are in the service.
Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts.
Her husband runs a farm.
Sources:Yahoo,Wikipedia,Library of CongressviaAvaxnews
