Working Women in WWII

African American military women.

Interesting that not only positions such as nurses, pilots, spies, and marines were being filled, but to the everyday women of the 1940's these mostly male positions were open:

• architect
• astronomer
• blacksmith
• bus driver
• butcher
• chemist
• clerical workers
• coat check
• consultant
• doorman
• draftsman
• electrician
• elevator operator
• engineer
• factory packer and shipper
• farmer
• ferry pilot
• fireman
• forest fire fighter
• furnace operator (in a steel mill)
• garbage collector
• geologist
• journalists
• laborer
• laywer
• logger
• mathematician
• mechanic
• meteorologist
• milkman
• musician
• ordnance worker
• physicist
• police officer
• postman
• professional baseball player
• riveter
• shipyard worker
• statistician
• street cleaner
• supervisor
• surveyor
• switch board operator
• taxi driver
• telepgraph operator
• ticket taker
• tinsmith
• traffic cop
• trolley car operator
• welder

These jobs involved some level of education and skills. Just goes to show that these women weren't dumb housewives. They were women who wanted to have a family more than a career after their schooling. Makes me think of the movie Mona Lisa Smile (set in the 1950's).