Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Women in Wartimes

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Not all women were asked to join the workforce. The age for women who worked on the

factories ranged from 25 to 34. Majority of women had night jobs when worked on the factories

because they had to fulfill their normal job in the day time as being a mother. Not every women

in america went to work on factories. The demands put on American industry by the war

machine were immense. With some ten million men at war and the rest of the male population

at work, it was clear the only way America would be able to win the war was if it enlisted large

numbers of women for employment. America needed it's women to go to work to build the

planes, tanks, and ships needed to fight Hitler. World War II, more so than any other war, was a

war based on production, and so it was time to bring American women into industry. Women

played a big role in world war 2, without them...we might of had a different ending.

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