She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Working Women

  • 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.

  • Angels in Long Underwear

    Source: Martin, Pete. “Angels in Long Underwear.” Saturday Evening Post, 31 July 1943, pp. 9-11”“36.

  • 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…

  • From Nurses In the Service

    Source: Clement, Jane. “From nurses in service.” American Journal of Nursing, vol. 43, no. 9, Sept. 1943, p. 850.

  • 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