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Women in Production
Factories:
With the help of women workers, total industrial production doubled between 1939 and 1945. The military production was astounding: 300,000 aircraft, 12,000 ships, 86,000 tanks, and 64,000 landing craft in addition to millions of artillery pieces and small weapons.
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In the top two photos to the left, women are working at the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California. To the far left is Lucille Little and to the close left is Amanda Smith. In the two photos below, women are working in Fort Worth, Texas. |
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Women worked six days a week, enjoyed only a handful of holidays, and were pressed to take overtime to keep the assembly lines operating around the clock. Bottom left, Women workers groom lines of transparent noses
for A-20 attack bombers at Douglas Aircraft’s
Long Beach, California plant, October 1942. Bottom right, A woman inspector confers with a worker as she makes a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company,
Long Beach, California
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Photo Credits (L to R): #1-4: The Library of Congress, #5: The National Archives, #6 The Library of Congress
(c) Copyright National Women's History Museum 2007