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In 1942, American Home Magazine released a chart and outline that the deemed the "Victory Diet" chart and the "Victory Rules." Amidst the United States' involvement in WWII, health and fitness became a major priority to those on the home front,…

Margaret Barnard Pickel wrote this bold expose regarding college women refusing to enter the military; an ongoing concern regarding college women was that they felt they were too intellectual to enter the military without holding a rank.

To ensure that women were doing their part inside the home, the Consumer-Welfare Committee created the "Consumer's Pledge," a skip of paper that housewives were asked to sign to pledge being waste-free and conservative in order to help the country's…

Del Monte campaigned for food rationing in their wartime advertisements, asking women to stock up on their canned fruits but also calling to action to need for one's own victory garden and canning for the winter.

In early 1943, the discussions regarding women entering the workplace and the military circulated a positive response in women, seeing the opportunities created by the war as a step in the right direction for the country's view toward women's…

At the apex of WWII, getting women involved was the key to success for the United States. Advertisements like this Kleenex ad were produced "in the interest of the war effort" to help educate women on the opportunities available to them during…

In 1943, the WAAC dropped the "auxiliary" part of the acronym to become the Women's Army Corps, which left women with the decision of either becoming civilian or fully entering the military.

Modine Manufacturing Co. released an advertisement in 1943 that posed the issue of women and their difference in the workplace; claiming their difference in their "strength, physiological reactions, and mental attitudes," the ad suggests that their…

At the height of the United States' involvement in WWII, the country needed nurses more than ever, calling upon both young women to get a nursing education and fight and retired nurses to re-enter the workforce. This article comes before Frances…

As with many of the industrial jobs that became available to women during WWII, working in shipyards was one of them, whether it "drafting to riveting." This article highlights the role of women in these shipyards and how women can begin their…