Roles Of Women in WWII

Housewives in WWII

Nursing isn’t the only job that women occupied but many people, rather than going into other fields,
would still stay at home and look after the children. Cooking, cleaning, and praying for their husbands to
come home safe. The Housewife.
Housewives were expected to take on civil defense activities, filling in where they could for the men who
had gone to war, in addition to being required to protect the home front. They would learn air aid activities
and learn to serve as an air warden as well as working in defense plants, volunteering for war-related
organizations, while still of course managing their households.

Interesting fact

In New Orleans, when the demand

for public transportation grew,
women became streetcar
Uniform “conductresses”
During the war, Nurses had to be
dressed in the correct uniform for
sanitization reasons and so that
soldiers were able to easily identify
who to go to in the case of a severe
injury. Nurses were required to wear a
white ward dress with a white nurses’
cap while on duty. They were also
Nurses’
issued Jobs
a serinofthe Warblues” this being
“dress
a dark blue service jacket, a medium
Nurses worked closer to the front lines than ever before, motivated by a sense of duty and a desire to “do their
blue skirt, a black tie, black shoes, a
bit” many volunteered. In the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Britain, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia. 5,000
white or blue shirt and a dark blue
nurses from Australia served in this variety of locations, not including the many in the United States Army
garrison or service cap. This particular
Nurses Corps as well as the United States Air force Nurses. Military Nurses that served were named through
uniform was for outdoor use.
whatever branch they served/ were serving in, an example of this would be Navy nurses who were called Naval.
The Army Medical Department established the “chain of evacuation” during the war, within that, nurses served
under fire in evacuation hospitals, field hospitals, on hospital ships and trains and as flight nurses on many
medical transport planes.

Introduction

In World War 2, many women joined the workforce

and the military, approximately 350,000 from
America alone. They worked as nurses, drove
trucks, repaired airplanes, and performed clerical
work. Filling essential industry positions that were
available and vacant due to the men who had gone
overseas to fight. In filling these male-dominated
positions, they performed duties they lacked
experience in. This included farming, building, and
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