WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During WWII women worked in factories producing munitions, building ships, aeroplanes, in the auxiliary services as air-raid wardens, fire officers and evacuation officers, as drivers of fire engines, trains and trams, as conductors and as nurses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most women labored in the clerical and service sectors where women had worked for decades, but the wartime economy created job opportunities for women in heavy industry and wartime production plants that had traditionally belonged to men.

Detailed explanation-3: -The aviation industry saw the greatest increase in female workers. By 1943, 310, 000 women worked in the aircraft industry, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce.

Detailed explanation-4: -The list of occupations changed as the war developed but some of the jobs were ship building, and many engineering-related trades but also agricultural, civil service jobs, architects, lighthouse keepers and many others (see PDF). Coal mining was not a reserved occupation at the start of the war but quickly was added.

Detailed explanation-5: -The origins of service During the Revolutionary War, women served the U.S. Army in traditional roles as nurses, seamstresses and cooks for troops in camp. Some courageous women served in combat either alongside their husbands or disguised as men, while others operated as spies for the cause.