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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…

As the United States became more involved in WWII, so did women. The "Amazons of Aberdeen" were a group of women, of all walks of life, who were hired to test military weapons and artillery before sending them off to the front lines.

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…

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…

American Magazine wrote an article following the daily routine of Dorothy Vogley, a war plant worker from Canton, Ohio, who also worked the "graveyard shift." This article helped illustrate the day-to-day routine that women in the production war…

Among the many jobs that Toledo women took on during the war, women also began working on the railroads, providing maintenance, cleaning, and operations.

Even before the end of WWII, American Magazine released an edition with a cover that explicitly acknowledged the most prominent post-war concern: women's jobs.