Abstract
During WWII American women were asked to join in producing the “vital machinery of war” by working in factories building planes, by being nurses, and by being pilots among other jobs. Getting women to work in industries was a tremendous sales proposition as stated by Paul McNutt, the director of the War Manpower Commission in 1943. The war posters and magazine ads of the time reinforced the duty women had towards the war effort. Although women at the time were mostly occupying the private space, the war campaign of Rosie the Riveter inspired many of them to take their work to the public. This descriptive paper tried to answer the following two questions of inquiry: How did women’s employment during WWII become a temporary empowerment and what short and long-term changes in women’s lives were brought about by the war campaign of Rosie the Riveter. While the short-term changes brought women back to the private space and domesticity, some of the conclusions of the long-term changes in women’s lives dealt with variations in the workspace, salary, and military benefits. The influence of how empowered women felt following Rosie the Riveter is an inconclusive collection of the voices of those women during and after WWII.
Highlights
The war campaign marketed to women during WWII made a significant contribution to gender roles in the United States
Their work was significant to the war campaign, but it was not until 1944 that a presidential executive order named flight nurses United States Army commissioned officers, and awarded them the rights and benefits given to male officers
The message was of submission, Scholar Sheila Tobias wrote in 1974 how the women working in the war effort were furious when they were forced out of the industrial work in favor of men returning from WWII (Tobias and Anderson, 1974)
Summary
The war campaign marketed to women during WWII made a significant contribution to gender roles in the United States. Not all women followed this pattern of domesticity since many poor and unmarried women had to work in the public space from an early age. I can always say, ‘Hey, I was a riveter during World War II’” (Gluck, 1987) This descriptive paper is trying to answer the following two questions of inquiry:. In the latter part of the nineteenth century women in the United States strived to be true by following the definition of womanhood at the time. The same rules of engagement did not apply to men of any social class This inherited behavior for respectable women lingered into the twentieth century. Albeit women had many advances, including the right to vote in 1920 with the 19th Amendment, they continued to occupy most of the private spaces
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