Hold responsible military positions on an equal footing with men submitting to the same discipline, earning the same pay in some theaters of war. Sharing the dangers of front line, fighting. But it is not only in the field of military operations that are pulling their weight. They are working on the Assembly Lines in munitions factories, helping to produce the enormous bulk of material that, we and our allies must have to fight the war in the sprawling aircraft factories on the west coast. Teams of women blush, the rivets that hold together the aluminum skin on the wing of a b24 or. This is like punching holes, a tennis, scouring powder instead of cutting out dresses. This woman stamps out the patterns of airplane parts hot plastic glass is lifted out of the processing that and molded into shatterproof windows for fighter planes and bombers and curved sections from the cage in the nose of a flying fortress. Instead of baking cakes. This woman is cooking gears to reduce the tension in the gears after use. Women can down an 1100 horsepower motor, put it together again and make it per a woman. Gives directions to the future pilot who is cooped up inside elite trainer learning the principles of blind flying. And the ubiquitous jeep is on every battlefield of the world. Guadalcanal to dutch harbor women have clamped instrument dials to the dashboards of of them. One woman guides a machine that turns out thousands of cartridge cases a day in peacetime. These would be lipstick cases. Women who used to make their own clothes are now stitching silk and nylon parachutes. Every team is the most important one and must pass the rigid examination before it is accepted. If a parachute is not satisfactory, there isnt a chance for the soldier to exchange it for a new one. The best scope of the war has created a tremendous for all medical supplies. A womans dexterous hands move the chamber of a hypodermic needle. In hundreds of the united shipyards. Husky women, the same jobs as men. Tough, rugged work that they toss off like veterans. In. Here are some of the reasons why theyre doing these job. I have two sons in the army now. Im the army, too, in a way. I wanted to bring my dad home soon. Hes in greenland because my husbands in the. And i want to do a job that means more than working in a department store. We do want women in department stores, other civilian jobs. But we need them in war plans to women who have had no industrial experience. Our train bar, the United StatesEmployment Service or sent by them to factories that teach future workers individual consultation determines what kind work the applicant is best suited. Would you like to work a factory . I dont know anything about machine. Can you drive a car . A bicycle . Can you repeat burnt out fuze . Yes, i can do that. Then you can be trained for a job and. The training wont cost you a cent with the strides that have been made in industrial methods. There is practically no limit to the types of work that women can do in. Classrooms. They learn to be inspectors by studying with enlarged models of precision instruments. With micrometer on the vernier gauge, they can measure accuracy to. The one 10,000 of an inch. Experience has proved that women are especially well adapted. The drawing of blueprints in one experimental aircraft factory. The entire drafting room is staffed by women. They are taking to welding as though the welding rod were a needle and the metal a length of cloth to be sewn. After a short apprenticeship. A woman can operate this Braille Press as easily as a juice extractor in her own kitchen and a lathe will hold no more terrors for her than an electric washing machine. But it is not only heavy industry that needs women. They are wanted in hundreds of essential civilian services that must be kept functioning. They have taken over routine jobs at nonmilitary airports. Railroads are carrying an unprecedented load of troops, war materials and civilian. Women help to keep the irreplaceable Rolling Stock in good running order. They are collecting fares and driving busses and. A boys of today are girls. Office buildings are using girls to the elevators. Many communities already have women on milk delivery routes. They handle man sized tractors on the vast of the middle west. And. And more than man sized mule team. Now, men are worried. My wife worked people think i can support her. Oh, i dont mind my wife working. Who is going to run my home . Its okay now. But what about after the war . The women will have all the jobs. Some men asked these questions during the last war. This is what happened then. Women wanted to take an active part in the war as they do today. Nurses saw duty at base hospitals with a drying off of many men to the front. Hey, inevitable labor shortage. The old prejudice against women in heavy industry was broken by the demand for more manpower. And women found work not only in nursing but in factories, Railroad Yards and on the farm. Youll manette the vanguard of our waves. This old newsreel shows them being reviewed by the secretary, the navy, josephus daniels, and the assistant secretary, Franklin Delano roosevelt. Those were the true glamor girls of the last war and remembered with affection and appreciation for the work performed on the world. Then as now was in peril. Women are needed again before the end. The year 2,400,000 more must be enrolled in war work, which means not only in the army, the navy, the marines, but in the factories, on the farm, in various civilian occupations. Now filled by men who are being called to the colors, every woman who can possibly is wanted. Their country is calling them