“The Canadian Women Workers Monument” shows the factories during ww2 where the women built the equipment to win the war effort. On the other side of the sculpture the victory of the allies is represented, suggesting that the victory was conditional on the industry at home. The work is loca...
in WW2 in Britain and China, many began to see that should the United States enter the war, the demand for pilots would increase dramatically. Independently, female pilots Jackie Cochran and Nancy Harkness Love submitted proposals to the USAAF, arguing that placing female pilots in non-combat ro...
The structure of workforce changed, all out war effort and lack of working age male in factories brought women into factories across Europe in incomparable way. Thousands of women worked with the army as nurses and ambulance drivers, with nominal supplies and harsh condition of the front line, ...
The March 8th, 1857 strike by hundreds of women workers in the garment and textile factories in NY City is suppose to be the impetus for IWD - not the response to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. There also was a demonstration of thousands of women workers in the needle trades on March 8,...
Born in Flint in 1917, Violet Wierzbicki was cut from a different mold. While Flint women were in factories forging the weapons of WW2, Wierzbicki, at the age of 25, took a more direct approach to the war effort. She joined the Women AirForce Service Pilots (WASP) program to fill the...
Women were expected to work hard in factories and domestic services. However, most women were having duties at home doing chores, babysitting, educating their children and run the house while the husband was not there. Society thought that doing these things would be a “successful women” (...
During World War 2, women provided a very valuable service as pilots. It was the first time American women would fly military aircraft. The women Air Force Service Pilots(WASPS) flew new planes from factories to military bases such as the B-26s and B-29s. It wasn’t known whether these...
We wanted to shine the light on some of the strongest human beings in order to give them praise and to show others how the fight for improvement never stops. These are our for Women of the Month. They’re friends, mothers, activists, and powerful ladies. We strive to be good, passionat...
1940s going to work in factories and taking time off to get their hair done, factory managers put in their own beauty salons. This reduced the time women were away from work and improved the morale of employees. Beauty was an important duty for women to maintain during the war years ...