What is the amount of change of women employed by railroads from pre-war, to during war?
100
Only 1,074 women graduated out of the program; 25,000 applied.
What is the amount of women that graduated from the program out of the amount that applied?
100
There were over 150,000 womenin the Women's Army Corps.
How many women were in the Women's Army Corps?
100
Places where women worked set up day care centers.
How was the problem of leaving young children home alone solved?
100
There was still unfair payment to nonwhite women. Many people thought that they didn't have the same good jobs or education so they paid the nonwhite women less.
Was there still unfair payment for nonwhites?
200
Married women before the war weren't allowed, in most cases, to work.
What was the situation that women were in before the war?
200
200 hours of flight instruction were required.
How many hours of flight instruction were required?
200
A) Women wanted to help end the war, they wanted to do something. B) They Army wouldn't directly add women to their ranks.
Why did the Women's Army Corps have to be created?
200
Most day care centers didn't have many, but some had over 4,000 children every day.
How many children were in a day care center?
200
Most of the time, women needed different schedules because of their two jobs - the one at home and the one at work.
What is the difference between men working and women working.
300
During and after the war, women found they could keep a fulltime job and maintain their household at the same time.
What is one of the many things that women discovered when they got fulltime jobs?
300
400 hours of ground school were required.
How many hours of ground school were required?
300
Women joined the Women's Army Corps, Womens Airforce, and they accepted volunteer military positions.
What are the 3 things women joined/signed up for in the military?
300
The Equal Pay Act made sure women had the same pay as men for the same jobs.
What did the Equal Pay Act of 1963 do?
300
Rosie the Rivertor was a poster about women being able to do the same things that men could do. Her main slogan was "We Can Do It."
What was Rosie the Rivertor?
400
Women were being paid the same amount as men, because their work was just as good, or in some cases better then a man's.
What happened to women when they got jobs?
400
Women worked as typists, clerks, and mail sorters. Only a select few were allowed to actually fight.
What are the 3 main things women were doing in the military?
400
Women had to be taught how to use everything in the factories. They needed to be told what everything was,unlike the men that had worked there before the war that knew how to do everything.
How was it different for women joining the work force?
400
Men that didn't go to war that were still in factories had to follow a simple rule about women. They can't show favoritism to one particular women.
What is something men had to do when women joined the work force?
500
The women kept their jobs after WWII, instead of leaving like after WWI.
What is the difference between what happened to women after WWI and WWII?
500
Women's aircraft academies were shut down after the war, but most women kept their piloting jobs.
What happened to women's aircraft academies after the war?
500
During the war, almost all people were against women fighting. When the amount of men began the dwindle, women were accepted with open arms. They changed the war.
What happened during the war?
500
Women had to work such long hours in factories that many of them moved to be closer to them.
What is something women had to do in order to work?
500
The sheer number of women that joined the military - almost 400,000 women - exceeded the amount of men that were in the military. This shows many women had wanted to join.