So, if you worked on any machines making things
you had to be really co-ordinated and on it not to lose your eyes or fingers or toes at the very least.
So, you have to have an extreme amount of respect for this woman because of how dangerous her
job was then. Even in the 1960s I quit jobs for almost taking my finger off making mirror sliding closet
doors when I was 15 after school. so, it was a problem still even in 1963 regarding almost all machines.
67 Colorized Photos Captured Way More Than Expected
Colorized historical photos | May 18, 2020
Eunice Hancock, a 21-year-old woman, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft plant during World War II. August 1942.
During World War 2 men were pulled away from the amor force in order to enlist in the fight against Japan and Germany. To fill the void left in the labor market women took on jobs in manufacturing, utilities, and transportation.
Nearly 2 million women from all over the country took up jobs on assembly lines and in plants where they produced pieces of armaments and machinery for the war effort.
During the war the amount of women in the workplace increased from 27 percent to 37 percent, meaning nearly one out of every four married women were working outside of the home by 1945. These women were just as important to winning World War 2 as the men overseas and we salute them.
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