War-Time Jobs
Seeing as all the men had to leave and fight when World War II started, all the women, who would normally have stayed home and tended the house, were needed to do the jobs that men left behind. They challenged assumptions about their capabilities, and after becoming needed for a large variety of jobs that men would usually have, in the office, the farm, and the factories, the women shocked everyone by proving that they could do whatever job a man could, including:
Salespeople, bus/taxi drivers, elevator operators, conductors, barbers, railroad track tenders, forest fire fighters, aerodynamic engineers, welders, riveters, mechanics, cargo loaders, crane operators, electricians, oilers, maintenance workers, furnace operators, physicists, lumberjacks, meteorologists, radio engineers, postman, and many other war-time jobs.
These war-time working women came from all kinds of former jobs, though for some, this was their first job. There were commercial artistes, food demonstrators, models, stenographers (shorthand writers), and homemakers. But no matter there previous employment (if they had any), they all united as they provided munition and machinery for the war.
Salespeople, bus/taxi drivers, elevator operators, conductors, barbers, railroad track tenders, forest fire fighters, aerodynamic engineers, welders, riveters, mechanics, cargo loaders, crane operators, electricians, oilers, maintenance workers, furnace operators, physicists, lumberjacks, meteorologists, radio engineers, postman, and many other war-time jobs.
These war-time working women came from all kinds of former jobs, though for some, this was their first job. There were commercial artistes, food demonstrators, models, stenographers (shorthand writers), and homemakers. But no matter there previous employment (if they had any), they all united as they provided munition and machinery for the war.
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