She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Women

  • Army & Navy – Stepsister Corps

    The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps will be a year old next week. It has been a hard year because it was the first, with the administrative aches and growing pains of any big, new organization. Director Oveta Culp Hobby announced that enrollment had reached 58,100 by mid-April. That unvarnished figure meant, at first sight, that…

  • TIME CAPSULE: Women in the Labor Force

    Before World War II, most women employed were typically young and unmarried. However, around two million women took up clerical roles during the war, and approximately one million joined the federal government workforce. By the war’s end, the female labor force consisted mostly of married women over 35. Notably, the number of married women working…

  • America’s Pampered Husbands

    Source: Stern, Edith M. “America”™s Pampered Husbands.” The Nation, 10 July 1943, pp. 40”“42.

  • 16,000,000 Women At Work

    Source: Anderson, Mary. “16,000,000 Women At Work.” The New York Times Magazine, 18 July 1943, pp. 18”“29.

  • Real-Life Rosies: Female Factory Workers in World War II

    “A pioneer herself (one of LIFE magazine”™s original four staff photographers, America”™s first accredited woman photographer during WWII, the first authorized to fly on a combat mission, etc.), Bourke-White spent time in 1943 in Gary, Indiana, chronicling “women ”¦ handling an amazing variety of jobs” in steel factories “some completely unskilled, some semiskilled and some…

  • Free A Man To Fight

    Source: “Free A Man To Fight.” Bradford Evening Star and The Bradford Daily Record, 23 Aug. 1943, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/bradford-evening-star-and-the-bradford-d/136874908/ FREE A MAN TO FIGHT At the start of WWII, the only military jobs open to women were those of Army or Navy nurses. But because so many men were desperately needed for combat, each…

  • Patients Are Turned Away Because of Nurse Shortage

    Source: “Patients Are Turned Away Because of Nurse Shortage.” Science News Letter, 28 Aug. 1943, p. 136.

  • The War Needs Women

    Source: O”™Donnell, Frances Frisbie. “The War Needs Women.” The Parents Magazine, Sept. 1943, pp. 24”“26.

  • Will They Go Back Home?

    Source: Banning, Margaret  Culkin. “Will They Go Back Home?” The Rotarian, Sept. 1943, pp. 28”“30. https://books.google.com/books?id=rkMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&dq=rotarian&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q=rotarian&f=false