Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory Women had different perspectives during World War 2. Many served in different branches of armed forces. Some labored in war productions plants. Most women stayed at home and had other responsibilities to raise children, balance check books, and some labored in war-related office jobs, while the men went to war. In addition to factory work and other front jobs about 350,000 women joined the Armed services, serving at home and abroad. “Rosie the Riveter,” later became a popular propaganda for women. While women worked in a variety of positions closed to them the industry saw the greatest increase in female’s workers. More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943,
Other female fields were teaching, nursing, and doing other domestic labor work, while Constance and Clara Marie were out working with the men, along with others. They navigated their way through a working world and learned how to build a lot of things. These women were known as “Rosie the Riveter.” They were the loyal, patriotic, and pretty women. These women were patriotic and eager to re-feminized through their work and clothing. They traded there linen suits and “swooping” hats in for blue cotton factory slacks and sturdy shoes. They packed a few tools or whatever they thought would help. They suffered with aching muscles and feet, grimy hands, and lost out on tons of sleep. It came to the point where female clerks were no longer polite and men would no longer offer their seats to them if it was crowded on buses. They were started to be treated as if they were men. So many of these women were patriotic and cared about their country enough to help. Not a lot of women would take the time to get made fun of just because. They knew that their country needed them and most of them would do anything to help. During World War 2 the image of women changed. It was only temporary though. But the road took by women in the work force during World War 2 did continue in the future. Constance and Clara Marie became a big impact on the women who helped out during this time. They took all kinds of