Women+in+World+War+II

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 * Rosie and Riverter and the American Homefront **
 * Teaching and Learning Resources **
 * Fly Girls **
 * Top Secret Rosies **
 * Code Girls **

Rosie the Riverter and the American Homefront

 * Social Changes During the War,** from Digital History

Women Replace Men in the Workforce from Oakland Museum of California

 * 6 million women joined the workforce
 * 200,000 served in the military

Rosie the Riverter, from Learn North Carolina

 * [[image:Screen Shot 2017-04-25 at 10.36.54 AM.png link="@https://www.marketwatch.com/story/rosie-the-riveter-wouldnt-be-paid-equally-today-and-she-may-have-caused-todays-gender-wage-gap-2018-01-24"]]What Rosie the Riveter Would Make Today**


 * Tending the Homefront: The Many Roles of Bay Area Women during World War II**, National Park Service

===Rosie's Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers During World War II, Library of Congress===


 * Selected World War II Records of Federal Agencies in New England**, National Archives at Boston



[[image:Screen Shot 2016-01-04 at 11.31.08 AM.png]]Teaching and Learning Resources
===Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women's Contributions during World War II===

Women in the U.S. Military in World War II
Women Heroes of World War II: The Pacific Theatre. 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage & Survival. Kathryn J. Atwood. Chicago Review Press, 2016

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 * It's Your War Too, 1944 film about the Women's Army Corps WAC) on YouTube
 * ** 1943 U.S. Government Women's Recruitment Video **

**Fly Girls**

 * Female World War II Pilots: The Original Fly Girls.**

As the //Magazine of History// (Volume 24, no. 3, July 2010) points out, "from 1942 to 1944, about one thousand WASPs flew over twelve thousand newly manufactured aircraft from factories to military bases. They also towed targets for gunnery practice and tested repaired aircraft. Despite their skill and sacrifice on the home front (thirty-eight women pilots died in service) they were denied military status and benefits during the war and the program was abruptly ended in 1944, due largely to opposition from male service pilots."


 * Click here to learn about more women's roles during WWII from the **Veterans History Project's Female Narrators**


 * **Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World War II fr**om the Library of Congress.

**Top Secret Rosies**

 * **Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War IIis** the story of female mathematicians who did ballistics research, including calculating weapons trajectories for soldiers and pilots.
 * See Top Secret Rosies video from PBS
 * See also Rediscovering WWII's Female Computers from CNN



Code Girls
More than half the American code-breaking force was female, about 10,000 women

Many were college graduates who had been excluded from math and engineering fields, but were now needed for their talent and expertise.

//Source//: "What Can We Learn from Women in Wartime," //The New York Times// (November 12, 2017)

How American Women Codebreakers of World War II Helped Win the War, Smithsonian (October 2017)

The Secret History of the Female Code Breakers Who Helped Defeat the Nazis, Politico Magazine (October 10, 2017)

**Link to Companion Women's History Pages on Women in World War I**