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Working Women of WWII Kofa High School Cambridge IGCSE American History (US)
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Working Women Question: What jobs do you consider to be traditionally female jobs? Why do you think that women held these specific professions? During WWII with men gone to war women had to step up and go to work “Rosie the Riveter” Military Service - WAC, WAVES, WASP
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Question: What message is the War Department trying to send by putting this poster up in public?
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Female pilots during WWII.
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Women working as welders in a factory during WWII
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Recruiting poster, many women worked stenographers or typists, sending and receiving messages from the front lines
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Women playing professional baseball during WWII
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Question Because of WWII, how did the role of women change in America? What difficulties do you think may arise when the war comes to a close?
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