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Women in Production
Critical Jobs:
The country had to keep functioning even as millions of men who performed critical functions in the economy were drafted. Women responded to calls to keep Americans fed, moving, and communicating.
In the 1940’s freight and passengers moved on railroads that employed more than two million people. Women took over many jobs associated with maintaining the rails and trains over which critical war material and troops flowed. The image to the right is of Dorothy Lucke, an employee of Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and she worked as a wiper at the Clinton, Iowa roundhouse. |
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The image below is of trackwomen of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, 1943 |
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Left, an advertisement for Fletcher’s Castoria in the December 1944 issue of The American Magazine. Click on all images for larger view Below a woman wiper at the roundhouse gives Women workers have lunch, Clinton, Iowa, 1943
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Photo Credits (L to R): #1: The Library of Congress, #2: The National Archives,
#3: The Women's Memorial, #4-5:The Library of Congress
(c) Copyright National Women's History Museum 2007