Before the war women worked at home. During the war we began running out of resources. The shortages began to affect the women at home with there shopping and cooking. Women started working outside of the home in addition to home responsiblitlies.
Women took temporary jobs while men were fighting in the war. There were many options for jobs. Sixty percent of the workers during World War II were women. I think that that is a lot. But, since all the men were working and fighting trying to win the war, that makes sense. The wives and daughters were left to take over the family farms.
One third of women worked. The other two thirds that were not employeed found may other way to help assist in the war. These jobs include things like volunteering for The Red Cross, selling things to pay for war, and filling canteens.
Rosie the Riveter was a program were women would promote other women to go into the work place. They would have cartoons on posters and hang them up and carry them around. Before this women didn;t wera pants. They usually didn't work after they had gotten married. Their jobs were mainly at keeping things in line at home and taking care of the children.
Husbands and children thought that women weren't smart enough to have a real job. We had just been getting out the depression by then, so any chance that most people had to make money was taken advantage of for the most part. They even moved into the cities and cramed into things called "flats" to save money.
If I was in one of these women's shoes I would defiantely take advantage of any job available! It would be the best thing to make as much money as possible to recover from the depression. I bet it would be really hard to balance taking care of things at home and taking care of the children and try and make money at the same time.
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