Women who served during World War II contributed greatly as pilots, nurses, and in the home front. During 1942 the United States had built many planes in the war factories each month for the war, in addition, these military planes happened to be needed to be delivered to air bases, but the U.S. was short in supply of pilots, however, in 1943, there had been a call out to women to do the flying, in place of the men. There were twenty five thousand women who’d applied, but only 1,100 got chosen as Women Airforce Service Pilots - the WASPS. The WASPs proved to the males, that they had logged more than 60 million miles in more than 12,000 aircrafts, which included B-17s, B-24s, and P-51 Mustangs, that had helped win the war. As Wise said “the
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One of these ways involved the medical field, or specifically, nursing, which had women during WWII working closer to battle lines than they did in WWI or any war before. This had allowed them to provide faster care to the wounded. However, the nurses had often worked and served under harsh conditions, but their reality forced them not to only adjust to these conditions, but also to improvise and make emergency decisions on the spot. In some cases their proximity to Warsaw Army Nurses using firearms for protection. Along with working in field hospitals, some nurses underwent additional training to become flight nurses or evacuation nurses. In addition the positive advancements of nurses weren’t always shared by all women, however, African American nurses battled for admittance to serve during the war. Ultimately, only five hundred African American nurses had served, and those who did only cared for African American soldiers and German prisoners of war. World War II had brought nurses closer to battle than ever, allowing them to demonstrate their skills and competence during extreme, dangerous conditions. (“Nursing and Medicine During World War …show more content…
More than 310,000 women worked in the air force industry in 1943, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce. “Rosie the Riveter” propaganda campaigns had helped recruit women in the industries, to show that they were strong enough to face the job. Rosie the Riveter was a fictitious character, who had became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history (Staff, History.com) and the most iconic image of working women during World War II. In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs, articles and even a Norman Rockwell painted Saturday Evening Post cover, the Rosie the Riveter campaign stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the workforce - and they did. Though women were crucial to the war effort, their pay continued to lag far behind their male counterparts: Female workers rarely earned more than 50 percent of male wages. (Staff,
One of these ways involved the medical field, or specifically, nursing, which had women during WWII working closer to battle lines than they did in WWI or any war before. This had allowed them to provide faster care to the wounded. However, the nurses had often worked and served under harsh conditions, but their reality forced them not to only adjust to these conditions, but also to improvise and make emergency decisions on the spot. In some cases their proximity to Warsaw Army Nurses using firearms for protection. Along with working in field hospitals, some nurses underwent additional training to become flight nurses or evacuation nurses. In addition the positive advancements of nurses weren’t always shared by all women, however, African American nurses battled for admittance to serve during the war. Ultimately, only five hundred African American nurses had served, and those who did only cared for African American soldiers and German prisoners of war. World War II had brought nurses closer to battle than ever, allowing them to demonstrate their skills and competence during extreme, dangerous conditions. (“Nursing and Medicine During World War …show more content…
More than 310,000 women worked in the air force industry in 1943, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce. “Rosie the Riveter” propaganda campaigns had helped recruit women in the industries, to show that they were strong enough to face the job. Rosie the Riveter was a fictitious character, who had became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history (Staff, History.com) and the most iconic image of working women during World War II. In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs, articles and even a Norman Rockwell painted Saturday Evening Post cover, the Rosie the Riveter campaign stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the workforce - and they did. Though women were crucial to the war effort, their pay continued to lag far behind their male counterparts: Female workers rarely earned more than 50 percent of male wages. (Staff,