Women Join the Factory Workforce
World War II was a large-scale conflict that consumed the entire planet. Though the war didn’t take place in North American, U.S. civilians had to help out. While young and non-disabled men were deployed to Europe and Asia fight, women were recruited to private and military factories.
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These students at James A. Garfield High School in LA clocked in for work at the high school airplane factory in December of 1943. This was the first time after World War I that women were allowed to do these kinds of jobs because they previously considered them “manly” roles.