The expansion of the Second World War across Europe assured the United States (U.S.) to convince the nation’s entire population to support the Allies. Nearly all the major combatants used women in additional supplementary military roles. The government notified women to the nation’s necessity for them to fill in the industrial labor force that was left vacant by widespread male enlistment. They urged women to work outside the home and businesses to stay open at night for working women. Women felt the patriotic need to enter the workforce and fill traditional male jobs. They performed myriad ways to participate in the war effort. They allowed U.S. government and industry to expand remarkably to meet the wartime needs. Roughly one out of every four married worked outside the home by 1945. Therefore, the Allies would not have defeated the Axis without the contribution of women to World War II, for …show more content…
The U.S. government came up with the “Rosie the Riveter” campaign to inspire women to replace men in the workforce. Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon of the United States. She was a strong fictional character who symbolized the female industrial worker of World War II. The campaign became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history, as a great number of women were assured of their patriotic duty and quickly responded by entering the workforce Women held jobs in munitions and did an extremely hazardous work. The munitions industry heavily recruited female workers. According to Susan Brownell Anthony, “Women form[ed] almost half of all the workers trimming bullet jackets, annealing case parts and assembling bullets and cartridges. In big ammunition-artillery women form[ed] more than a third of the workers.” Women worked in textile mills and the clothing factories to assemble military apparel. They also prepared and packed food and worked in the nascent electronics