One Pager- Women Roles In WW2
By: Brooke Yarish
Facts
- During WW2 women had to take up non-traditional jobs
- "Rosie the Riveter" was a national symbol of that time
- Even though the women took on the men's jobs they were still expected to return home and do everything else they would normally do
- "Rosie the Riveter" inspired a social movement that increased the number of working American women from 12 million to 20 million by 1944
- Nearly 350,000 women served in uniform, both at home and abroad
- Women drove trucks, repaired airplanes, worked as laboratory technicians, rigged parachutes, served as radio operators, analyzed photographs, flew military aircraft across the country,and test flew newly repaired planes
- They wanted to keep their jobs when the men returned from war
Social, Political, Effects of World War 2 on the World
A political effect of world war 2 on the world is it brought us into an enormous public debt. Bombing cities and harming civilians were considered much more heinous prior to world war 2. A political effect would be monopoly on nuclear weapons.
Questions and Answers
Q: Why were women expected to do so much in WW2?
A: The men were not there to do it for them.
Q: How did Women learn to do everything in WW2?
A: They learnt things as the y went along.