the life and times of Rosie the riveter by Connie field

what types of jobs were women doing before world war 2

raised corn, doing homework, Secreteries, receptions, or department clerks, domestic, hotel, restaurant, making toys, and farmers.

how did the federal government appeal to women to join the workforce

creates image of Rosie the riveter to appeal to women to join the workforce media: ads, women door-to-door, earning money to help husbands/boys, needed to win war.

what kinds of work did Rosie the riveters do? what opportunities and benefits did this work provide women?

Burning machinery, welding, engineers, on private railroads, building ships, during welders, assembly lines, riveters.

what problems did working women face, both in the workplace and at home? how were women impacted differently depending on their status: single without family responsibilities, married and/or with family responsibilities, and ethnic minority women?

the job was dangerous, lots of people died bad wages. minority workers paid 5 cents less per hour than white women. they didn't want to work with black women, segregation, they weren't allowed to use the showers. Double shift: 40 to 50 hour work weeks and than come home to do domestic work inadequate child care, Seperated from kids and have use a portion of their wages from childcare. Problems: black women gets harder work, dangerous jobs, earning less than men doing the same job's, blacks earning less, leave children, work every day and come home to work too-interfered with sleep and shopping.

what happened to Rosie the Riveters after the war ended? how did the government address this issue? what did the women highlighted in the film end up doing after the war?

Government tells them to go back home and do domestic work against women are getting fired so men can work. After: return home, needed to supervise children, working women are bad for everyone because losing femininity, rivals to husbands, children need maternal love.