She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Working Women

  • Let’s Explore Your Mind – Single Women Have More Problems Than Married Women

    Source: Wiggam , Albert Edward. “Let”™s Explore Your Mind – Single Women Have More Problems Than Married Women.” The Boston Globe, 12 July 1941, p. 13. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/138114546/

  • Be a Nurse and See the World?

    Source: Folks, Helen Fornay. “Be a Nurse and See the World?” Independent Woman, Oct. 1941, pp. 300”“311.

  • Medicine: Need for Nurses

    In Manhattan, several wards of the vast new Triboro Hospital for tuberculosis have been standing empty since January””there are not enough nurses to run them. In the Midwest some hospitals have closed entire wings, although patients are clamoring for admittance””they have not enough nurses. In Washington, D.C., doctors urged pregnant women to have their babies…

  • The Social Front: Jobs and Workers

    Source: “The Social Front: Jobs and Workers.” Survey Midmonthly: Journal of Social Work, Nov. 1941, pp. 330”“332.

  • Your Part in Civilian Defense

    Source: Randall, Marian. “Your Part in Civilian Defense.” The American Journal of Nursing, Jan. 1942, pp. 60”“61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416049

  • Honolulu Girls and Gas Masks

    Source: “Honolulu Girls and Gas Masks.” Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 10 Jan. 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/hawaii-tribune-herald/127251237/

  • ARMY: She-Soldiers

    Though they will carry no guns, take no part in combat, U.S. women will soon be in the war as professional soldiers. They will wear Army uniforms, get Army pay, be subject to Army discipline. Their jobs: cooks, waitresses, mechanics, gardeners, chauffeurs, clerks, secretaries ”” all the behind-scenes tasks which now occupy soldiers more needed…

  • Women Don Work Clothes

    Source: “Women Don Work Clothes.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 24 Jan. 1942, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127250465/

  • CIVILIAN DEFENSE: The Ladies!

    The chief responsibility for the tumult in the Office of Civilian Defense has been blamed on its head, round-bottomed Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, but Eleanor Roosevelt, flitting hither & yon, distributing White House roses among her colleagues’ desks, has not notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that OCD workers in Washington did not…