July 23, 1943



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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