WWII started in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. US President Franklin Roosevelt led the “We Can Do it” campaign urging single and married women to join the workforce. The former USSR (Russia) lost over 21 million people as war casualties. Nearly 6 million ...
When the war ended, many women lamented the return to the domestic sphere. Although women had been part of the workforce for many years prior to the war, women’s involvement in factory life helped to set the stage for thesecond wave feminist movement. After the war, the GECO plant was...
One such institution was the John Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, which was invited to supply enough men and women to staff 2 complete Hospitals.Nearly 200 Doctors, Nurses, and other medical professionals volunteered, eventually forming the 18th and 118th General Hospitals which ...
Alongside truck production, spare parts production and repair of chassis and engines grew in importance with new skilled staff to handle the increasing production and managed more automation or streamline in the process due to a lower workforce, enlisted in the army. Thus, the company recruited wo...
However, it saw a significant boost around the Great Depression and the Second World War when women began to enter the workforce. "Men didn't want to see their mothers sitting in the typing pool or at the reception desk," LaFlamme realized. "Bravo to the marketing teams. They came up wi...