1. Women at War

2. Women’s role before the war
“A woman’s place is in the home”
Domestic life: Child rearing
Men work & Women stay home
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

3. War Begins Men enlist by the millions leaving jobs with no workers
Women are encouraged to go into the work force.
This causes a drastic change in gender roles in every nation.

4. Life on the Home Front Women take over traditional male roles
They go to work in factories and farms by the thousands supporting the war effort
Rationing imposes hardships

5. Women in War Jobs
The War Advertising Council's Women in War Jobs campaign is the most successful advertising recruitment campaign in American history. Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character immortalized by posters supporting the war effort and a wartime song of the same name, helped to recruit more than two million women into the workforce.

6. Rosie the Riveter

7. War Posters

15. Women’s Baseball in the 1940’s
In 1943, the United States was in full force fighting in World War II. P.K. Wrigley received word from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the 1943 Major League baseball season might be suspended due to a man-power shortage. He wanted Wrigley to do something to keep the baseball game going until the men got home from service.

16. All American Girls Professional Baseball League
Kenosha Comets

17. Wrigley selected four cities in close proximity to league headquarters in Chicago to host the first teams: Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin; Rockford, Illinois; and South Bend, Indiana. Teams comprised 15 players, a coach, a business manager and a female chaperone.
Racine Belles
South Bend Blue Sox

18. Among the competitors in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were the Rockford Peaches. National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY

19. Women in Uniform “free a man for the front line”
Worked mostly clerical, support roles including mechanics, cooks, & secretaries

20. Women’s Army Corp
100,000 Joined

23. WAVES – Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
By mid 1943, approximately 27,000 women served in the WAVES program

26. Army and Navy Nurses
68,000 Women served to nurse wounded soldiers

27. Russia: Women were Front Line Soldiers
First country in the world to allow women in front line combat.
Soviets made no distinctions between men and women
Women made excellent snipers

28. Secret Agents, Saboteurs, & Partisans
Due to the Sexist ideas of the age, women were able to effectively fight a covert war against the enemy
Saboteur – someone who commits sabotage or causes wrecks
Partisan – an enthusiastic supporter of an activity

29. Reporters and Photographers
News coverage encouraged many women to get jobs as correspondents.

31. After the War
The new found freedom for women both in the US and elsewhere was taken away as men returned.
Governments encouraged women to “return to the home and family”
                                                                                  

32. During the years of WWII
Women saw combat as nurses at Pearl Harbor
WAC’s became a permanent part of the U.S. Army and
were landing in Normandy on D-day
67 Army nurses and 16 Navy nurses were captured and
spent 3 years as Japanese prisoners of war
350,000 American women served in the military during
WWII, some killed in action
Nearly a million women went to work in government jobs

33. WWII Contributed to the Changing of Women’s Roles Today!

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