The Employment of Women in War Production
Title | The Employment of Women in War Production PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Employment Security |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Economic aspects |
ISBN |
Increasing War Production Through Employment of Women
Title | Increasing War Production Through Employment of Women PDF eBook |
Author | United States. War Production Board |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Employment of Women in War Production, May, 1912
Title | The Employment of Women in War Production, May, 1912 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Employment Security |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Women Workers in Ten War Production Areas and Their Postwar Employment Plans
Title | Women Workers in Ten War Production Areas and Their Postwar Employment Plans PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Rosenberg Weissbrodt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1946 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Employment of Women in War Production, May 1942
Title | Employment of Women in War Production, May 1942 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Women in War Production
Title | Women in War Production PDF eBook |
Author | Thelma McKelvey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Women Workers in the Second World War
Title | Women Workers in the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Summerfield |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136247262 |
The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme caution, in spite of the desperate need for women’s labour in war work. Women’s own preferences were frequently neglected or distorted in the search for a compromise between production and patriarchy. However, the enduring practices of paying women less and treating them as an inferior category of workers led to growth in the numbers and proportions of women employed after the war in many areas of work. Penny Summerfield concludes that the war accelerated the segregation of women in 'inferior' sectors of work, and inflated the expectation that working women would bear the double burden without a redistribution of responsibility for the domestic sphere between men, women and the state. First published in 1984, this is an important book for students of history, sociology and women’s studies at all levels.