Nurses
A nurse must be this many years old in order to be a U.S. Army nurse.
What is 25-35 years old?
What are 'Hello Girls'?
2 jobs male dominated jobs a woman might have done during the war.
What are Farming, munition work, railroad workers, aircraft builders, ship/tank building, etc…?
The first group of women officially enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
What is Yeomen F?
Examples of specific food restriction days that families had to follow.
What is (Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, etc.)?
The amount of hours women were expected to work each day.
What is 14-18 hours?
The job the female telephone operators performed.
What is connecting soldiers in battle to their commanders?
The derogatory name women who worked as farmers were referred to as.
What is Farmerettes?
Because of this act women were allowed to officially be members of the U.S. Navy, receive the same amount of pay as men, uniforms, etc.
What is the Naval Act of 1916?
Women encouraged other women to volunteer in the war effort through this.
What is propaganda?
The two organizations that helped with patient care.
What is The Army and American Red Cross?
The militaristic standards that the female telephone operators were required to participate in.
What is daily military drill and wearing uniforms?
The Canary Girls and what happened to them.
What is A group of women working in British munition factories to make war supplies - exposed to dangerous chemicals like sulfuric acid that turned their skin yellow? (answers can vary)
The main goal of women joining the WAAC allowed men to free this duty.
What is combat?
The patients that only African American nurses were allowed to treat.
What are Germans prisoners?
The team of nurses that would come to the front lines.
What is the Surgical specialty team?
What is English and French?
The thing women in strike movements fought for.
What is equal pay and better working conditions?
Women helped organize the Army and made sure it always ran smoothly through this job.
What is Administrative Work?
The things that women had to sign that said that they would listen to everything that the Food Administrator said.
What are pledge cards?
The areas that nurses needed to be experienced in.
What is anesthetics, psychiatric nursing, and orthopedics?
The number of female telephone operators.
What is 233?
The name of the idea of simplifying complex jobs for unskilled workers to take on.
What is Job Dilution?
Women were often underestimated and caught because of this.
What are Gender Stereotypes?
The amendment that gave women suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?