Rosie the Riveter did not vanish with victory; she simply transformed herself into Wendy the White-Collar Worker. In part, this was because she understood that in any contest between herself and GI Joe for a factory job, she would be the loser. The veteran’s right to a job was as inviolate as was the soldier’s right to a seat on the train. But because Johnny 3.ed home did not mean that she had to accept the kitchen for the rest of her life. If she couldn’t have the factory, then she would take the office. In doing so, she entered a segment of the economy that would boom, while he, unknowingly, was more likely to go for the one that would stagnate in the postindustrial society. It had been both a blue-and a white-collar war and afterwards, women would take over office jobs so completely that soon it would be forgotten that prior to the war women had little chance of even pink collar ghetto jobs. Bookkeeper, bank teller, ticket reservationist -all of these sorts of jobs were largely held by men in the 1930s and before. The change, accelerated by the war, was part of a long-term transformation of ideas about suitable jobs for women. In most of the 19th century, those women who had to work were primarily domestic workers; manufacturing was the great leap forward of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and the switch to pink-collar predominance came with WWII Nowhere was this trend more obvious than in government employment. Even in Hoover’s conservative FBI, for instance, five times as many women were employed after the war as before. Federal employment was particularly meaningful for black women; by 4. 1944, about 200,000 black women worked for the nation, compared with fewer than 60,000 in 1940. But while women began looking to Uncle Sam for jobs, they were very slow to demand federal protection for equal opportunity in either private or political arenas. “American women have the right to vote,” wrote a man in Good Housekeeping midway through the war and they can be expected to impress that fact on legislators. (AMERICAN WOMEN AND WORLD WAR II)