Rosie the Riveter Leaves the Industrial Workplace
While government planners and factory owners assumed that women’s industrial work during World War II would last only as long as the war lasted, many of the women had other ideas. After the war ended, despite their new skills, they found [...]
Analysis Worksheet: “I’m Proud...My Husband Wants Me to Do My Part”
This worksheet helps students analyze a poster created by the U.S. government during World War II that encourages women to take factory jobs.
By the Numbers: White and African-American Women Workers
This worksheet helps students analyze statistics about the labor force participation of white and African-American women in the decades before, during, and after WWII.
"Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas"
Beaumont, Texas, like many U.S. cities, became a boomtown during World War II, as new residents flooded in to take jobs at the city's shipyards and petroleum production facilities. Between 1940 and 1943, population rose by 35% and the city suffered [...]