The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter Quiz HIST 106

Lola's life before the war

- worked in a novelty factory in high school

- sadness though surrounded by happiness

Why were women treated poorly in the workforce during the war

When a woman walked in it meant a man went to war

Margaret before war

Lived in slums, did work for a private family for a dollar a day

"Kitchen Mechanic"

Wanita before war

Met husband at 14, mother's friends doing housework or working in restaurants as that was all that was open to them. Mom worked at hotel as chambermaid

Gladys before war

farm mill, plowing land

Lyn before war

Doing housework

Message saying that women should not do anything without knowing that...

she was needed

Propaganda telling women that manpower is going to war and their jobs must be filled so women are to

"give our boys what they need"

Said war cannot be won unless

women take over jobs men are leaving

In one message they related industrial jobs to

domestic jobs

Women in the workforce are called the

Hidden Army

One woman in propaganda said that she joined the workforce for what reason that differed from the others

She had no sudden emotional urge, she just felt it was her duty

Song about sensible Rosie buying

war bonds

One message said this about the safety of the workforce

They are safer working than they are in their own homes (false!)

What was true about the safety in the workforce

Very unsafe, people dying, bad conditions

Industry deaths exceeding that of Pearl Harbor

What was the death Margaret witnessed

One of the girls went in with a hairpin and she went up into sparks and so Margaret quit

Lola joined what and what happened

a Union and the door was locked on her when she went to work once because of that

The Union thing had what ruling in Lola's case

in favor and gave her about an 80% raise in money

Black women were being paid ______ less p hour than white workers

5 cents less

What did Margaret say about Union work v domestic work

If things didn't work right could always go to union. No union for domestic work, so had some say in factory job

Another: not working alone all the time like in domestic work.

Ad saying that it was a woman's ______ duty. Saying its harder to please _______ shoppers all day and now she just has to please the boss and he's a ______. Looking like business girls on ______. Showers and cleansing rooms

patriotic

women

man

vacation

WHat did margaret say happened with the showers

Black girl taking a shower, matron told her to leave, she didn't so they closed the showers

White women told the black union representative that they didnt want to work with

black women

Day after payday is not time to relax, _____

get back on the job

Lyn had to do what to her child

Leave the child behind for 5 years with Lyn's mother

Ad said there were ______ but Wanita never heard of such a thing, and her daughter was sent to boarding school

11 hour nurseries

Men after women worked

Propped feet up, expected dinner to be made for them

Message saying women have learned/must learn that there is no such thing as a slight ___________ because there is no such thing as slight _____

falling off in production

death

Lyn and the Filipino worker

Working down in hull of ship, filipino men, 19 yo officer of ship white, kicked filipino, no white men said anything, she turned on her torch and threatened him. Tells her he was trained in boot camp so any national group was beneath all white people

Intercom: Lyn Chiles — got called into office and men followed her. Called it communist activity. Called herself a commie

Message where woman says that her job belongs to some ______ and that when he comes back _________. Women and girls must become __________ once war is over and peace is restored

soldier

he can have it

housewives and mothers

Message where it says that now soldiers have returned and once their idle dreams have departed, the average soldier simply wants a ____. He represents the best of ______

job,

America

Order of people laid off

women first, less senior black men next, then the white workers but first were women

These women now had

all these skills but nowhere to use them

Thought economy would boom bc of this but there was no place for them

Message talking about finding jobs for returning veterans and markets in undeveloped regions of _____ and _____ where there will be new land and raw materials. New market for gadgets that make _________

Asia and Africa

life easier

Gladys applied to be a welder with all the credentials needed but

she was denied just because she was a woman

Women and men were no longer comrades in arms, but

competitors for what little there was

Message saying that increasing ____________ of women was disruptive of marriage. Women were becoming ______

economic independence

unfeminine (no maternal love, no real women as partners) Wives have become rivals

Gladys started working in

a kitchen

Margaret working in

domestic work - a defeating thing

Lyn working in

Cosgraves Department store as a stock girl because black people were behind the scenes

Wanita working as

worker in airport cafeteria

Wanita felt that black people could get what jobs because they are saved for them

Restaurant or cooking or cleaning job

Lola worked in

DEXA graphing which is darkroom work

Message talking about the rise of over 50% in baby births and how babies were a greater promise of __________ than any other course in life

self realization

Magazine articles changing as they go from telling you how to cook short dishes so you can go to work quickly to

long dishes that take a full day and more about raising children and the psychological development of children

Movies changing

More about romantic kind of macho wars where a woman was submissive and a man was macho

Lola hopes for the feeling of love for one another again in the country, but not for

a war