Join Us in a Victory Job
Throughout World War Two, imagery is used to encourage women to join the workforce in order to help the country succeed. “Join Us in a Victory Job” is an image that shows six women who work in industrial jobs that help the country in its wartime efforts. As a labor shortage took hold in the country, women are recruited to take on jobs left behind by men when they went to serve. Recruitment of women workers skyrocketed during World War Two and a field that was once dominated by men became run by women. The exit from the domestic sphere was welcomed during war time yet shunned when the Unites States was at peace. War had a large impact of the leave from domesticity, and after the war was over, women did not want to return to the domestic sphere, instead fighting to stay in the working world.
We Can Do It
What came to be known as Rosie the Riveter, the “We Can Do it!” cartoon is created by Miller J. Howard in 1943 during World War Two for Westinghouse Electric as a way to boost women worker morale. During World War Two, the United States faced a labor force shortage since many men were serving overseas. Due to the wartime labor shortage, women are needed to take jobs they had never held before. There are many public campaigns encouraging women to join the workforce in times of war. War had a large impact of women leaving the domestic sphere and entering the working world. In war times, women workers are essential to economic survival, whereas working women are looked down upon when America was at peace.
A Woman’s Workplace
A typical job a woman is able to get was in a factory making clothing. Many women had industrial jobs during wartime, but after the men returned home, are forced to either return to the private sphere or find a job elsewhere. This did not sit well with women and they fought to keep their jobs. A common wartime job for a woman is making uniforms for soldiers oversees. Through protests, women are able to remain working in the factories like they had while the men were fighting abroad. War had a large impact of women leaving the domestic sphere and entering the working world. Instead of being pushed back into the private sphere after the war, women fought back and continued to work in the public sector alongside men.