USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As America’s war machine went into action, the government initiated a massive publicity campaign to persuade women to replace men on assembly lines in factories and defense plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -More than six million women took wartime jobs in factories, three million volunteered with the Red Cross, and over 200, 000 served in the military.

Detailed explanation-3: -Women in the war They worked as nurses, drove trucks, repaired airplanes, and performed clerical work. Some were killed in combat or captured as prisoners of war. Over sixteen hundred female nurses received various decorations for courage under fire.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the Second World War, women proved that they could do “men’s” work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the military and demands for war material increasing, manufacturing jobs opened up to women and upped their earning power. Yet women’s employment was only encouraged as long as the war was on.

Detailed explanation-5: -From 1941, women were called up for war work, in roles such as as mechanics, engineers, munitions workers, air raid wardens, bus and fire engine drivers.