Category: Women

  • The Proposed “Nurse Draft” Legislation

    Source: “The Proposed ”˜Nurse Draft”™ Legislation.” The American Journal of Nursing, Mar. 1945, p. 171. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416859?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Stockings Scarce

    Source: “Stockings Scarce.” Business Week, 3 Mar. 1945, pp. 90”“93.

  • House Committee Hears Witnesses On Rents, Ships

    Source: “House Committee Hears Witnesses On Rents, Ships.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 22 Mar. 1945, p. 7. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/138112574/ TIME CAPSULE: “Women had more difficulty than men finding a place to live. Single women were looked upon with suspicion, since “decent” young women lived with their parents until they married. Married women with children, whether or not…

  • ARMY & NAVY: What’s Wrong with the Nurses?

    Congress, which has backed away from the idea of drafting male labor, moved last week towards the drafting of women nurses. Few Congressmen liked the idea. But the Army says that its Nurse Corps should number at least 60,000 to be adequate; present enrollment is only some 47,500. The Army is convinced that the only…

  • The Nurses Have Not Lagged Behind

    Source: “The Nurses Have Not Lagged Behind.” Saturday Evening Post, 28 Apr. 1945, p. 108. https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1945-04-28_217_44/page/108/mode/2up?q=Lagged

  • Getting Rid of the Women

    Source: Mezerik, A. G. “Getting Rid of the Women.” The Atlantic Monthly, June 1945, pp. 79”“83. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/06/getting-rid-of-the-women/656199/

  • GI Nightingale

    Source: Hockenberger, Margaret A. “Book Review: GI Nightingale.” The American Journal of Nursing, Oct. 1945, p. 875. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416520?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Women in the Labor Force

    Source: “Women in the Labor Force.” Business Week, 29 Dec. 1945, pp. 92”“94.

  • How Come No Jobs For Women?

    Source: Pickel, Margaret Barnard. “”˜How Come No Jobs for Women?”™; ”™Women Face a Crisis in Unemployment; It Is Important That They Examine It in the Light of Self-Evaluation.`.” The New York Times, 27 Jan. 1946, p. 20,46,-47. https://nyti.ms/3H3MGpt