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Essay / American Women in World War II - 1740
At the start of World War II, the American people had a sense of unity. Men chose to leave their jobs and families to join the front lines, while women, for the first time, left home and took up the jobs their husbands had left behind. In 1943, many magazines chose to profile women at work. These articles focused their stories on working women and glorified the non-traditional jobs they held. Perhaps they thought that if they made these small jobs challenging and exciting and noble, more women would start joining the workforce. For this reason, the media created a fake worker named Rosie the Riveter, and she was depicted as a heroine for American women. These efforts to encourage women to work through magazines bore fruit: more than six million women joined the workforce during the war. Consequently, the magazines helped paint a portrait of an average woman taking on hard wartime work, while encouraging other women to do the same. Magazines in 1943 published articles about women working hard during the war. They were also written with the aim of inspiring other women to work and contribute to the war efforts. In the scholarly article Rosie the Riveter Remembers, they discussed these wartime workers and interviewed some of the women who had worked as "Rosies". The article explained that during the war, the media as well as the government had started a movement to encourage women to support the war effort by taking on war work. The same women who, during the Great Depression, were advised not to take men's jobs. However, more than 6 million women had entered the workforce for the first time by the end of World War II. Moving on... middle of paper ...... papers of the time encouraging women to work, more than 6 million women joined the workforce and helped bring our country's men back to home safely. Works Cited "From Alice. to Eddie. to Adolf!" Life, March 15, 1943, 67Google Books. “Girl Pilots.” Life, July 19, 1943, 73-81 Google Books. “I looked at my brother’s face. » Good Housekeeping, September 1943. , 145Kaufman, Pat. “Rosie the Riveter Remembers.” » Organization of American Historians 16 (2002): 22-29. Khalid, Areeba B. Albalagh. 2002. http://www.albalagh.net/women/0064.shtml. “Life visits the harvesters of America. » Life, September 27, 1943, 119-22 Google Books. Litoff, Judy B. and David C. Smith. “American Women in a World at War.” » Organization of American Historians 16, no. 3 (2002): 7-12. “Women in steel have tough jobs in heavy industry. " Life, August 9, 1943, 75-81 Google Books.