WOMEN
RAPIDLY REPLACING
MEN IN WAR WORK
Number of
Women Machinists Increasing
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Women’s Bureau of the United
States Department of Labor just last month released Special Bulletin No. 197, Women Workers in
Some Expanding Wartime Industries. This bulletin details the results of a
survey conducted in the summer of last year with respect to the status of women
employed in war production. The survey
found that nearly three in ten workers are women, one in seven of whom hold
jobs that would normally be occupied by men. The bulletin reports that “In
machine and machine-tool production,…women were half of the personnel in
factory jobs…”. The bulletin goes on to state “Women appear to be replacing men
more rapidly at machines than in any other type of work.”
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