Women On The Homefront
True or False?
Women played a large role in WW2 both in the armed forces and on the Homefront.
What is True
What is a common issue debated all the way back during WW2 that involves different wages given to men and women for the same job?
What is equal pay
What professions did women enter during World War II?
What is factories and shipyards
While the Great Depression saw the greatest number of women entering the workforce, this global event saw more women in traditionally ‘masculine’ roles like production, construction, and farm work.
What is World War II?
What was the women's force in the Army called
What is the Women's Auxillary Corps
What were the gardens that women are in order to make their own produce and ration better?
What is Victory Gardens
Despite the steady increase in women’s employment rates since the 1920s, a married woman’s place was still considered to be where during World War 2?
What is at home
What year did women start entering the workforce?
When is 1940
Despite Congressman Hoffman of Michigan’s pleas in 1942, “who then will manage the home fires; who will do the cooking, the washing, the mending, the humble, homey tasks to which every woman has devoted herself?” 350,000 women still took uniformed jobs in this government agency.
Question: What are the Armed Forces?
What jobs did they have in the Army name two
What is the mail delivery, clerk, nurse, Anti-aircraft guns, cooking, maintenance
What a large issue for women when they began to work in the factory jobs and out of the home?
What is childcare
On average most employers managed to circumvent the issue of equal pay, and women made about __% of the pay that men did. (Percentage to the nearest ten Ex. 10%, 20%, 30%, etc.)
What is 50%
Who did the women manufacture the weapons and war supplies for?
What is their husbands fighting in the war
The women of this military branch became the first women to fly American military aircraft. They ferried planes from factories to bases, transporting cargo and participating in simulation strafing and target missions. The WASPS were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010, nearly 70 years after their service.
What is the Army Air Forces? (Women’s Airforce Service Pilots)
How many women served in the Army
What is 350,000
What act did Eleanor Roosevelt convict her husband to enact in regards to women's struggle in childcare?
What is the Community Facilities Act of 1942
With the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme of 1939 men would receive approximately 21 USD a week when injured while women would only receive how many?
What is 14 USD
From 1940-1944, what percentage of women worked in factories?
What is 30%
This industry saw the greatest increase in female workers, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce in 1943 (compared to just 1 percent in the pre-war years).
What is Aviation?
What did general MacArthur say about the Women in the Army
What is my best soldiers they worked harder, complained less, and were better disciplined than men
What was the name of the first U.S. Navy flight nurse to fly an evacuation mission to an active battlefield, where she saved approximately 2,393 Marines and never got the same recognition of her male counterparts at the time?
Who is Jane Kendeigh
What jobs did women remain in after WWII?
What is Secretaries and waitresses (pink collar jobs)
During World War II, "the concept of the home shifted from the physical structure of the domestic sphere to any place that women were present, including traditional places of male work." This term "extolled the traditional ideal of the woman supporting a working wage-earner by creating a pleasing and productive domestic space-only this time, the domestic space was a factory, not the home."
What is the ‘Home Front’?
Who was the first director of the Women's Army
Who is Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby