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Newspaper
Yank
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1944
Page
6
S/Sgt Kenneth W. Anders argues that women proved capable in war industries and should retire to home life after the war. He predicts manpower shortages will end and questions how all veterans will be employed while women stay in industry. He cites GI Bill limits and Selective Service Law, urging opposition to extending women in industrial work.
Wartime shifts have pushed women into nearly all industrial roles since World War I and now in this war. Women seek jobs for independence and to escape monotonous housework. Statisticians note 10 million more workers than prewar, many women among them, urging industry to boost production to absorb them.
The piece argues women should work only if necessary during wartime, praising their role in war production and shipyards while urging only essential employment to preserve homes and family livelihoods. It frames American civilization as needing homes with women as their foundation, referencing the Aleutians context.
A fragment argues that until maximum employment is achieved women should not work in industry unless essential, urging women to tend homes and raise families while men support them. The quote references Haly, indicating a person or author involved in the discussion.
Fort Leonard Wood Mo notes a WW II era stance urging equal postwar employment. The author argues that capable women who built wartime goods deserve peacetime work, advocates individual choice over mass mandates, and calls for full employment to boost output and purchasing power.
The speaker warns that America faces loss of peace and a return to the roaring twenties if women in industry are not restricted. She claims broad support from American women in industry to remove married women and those lacking skill classifications from the workforce, linking policy to democracy and family protection in France.
A speaker notes that OMEN will voluntarily leave jobs held during the crisis to allow men to work in industry. The speaker, a former steelworker, cites that nine of ten involved are mothers wives sisters or sweethearts of servicemen and that many will return home to free industrial roles. Hawaii.
A wartime message praising women's contributions to war production and urging a postwar return of men to peacetime jobs and family life, referencing New Guinea and soldiers returning from battlefronts worldwide.
YANK invites reader letters for The Soldier Speaks feature asking what changes should be made in post war America. Send ideas to The Soldier Speaks Department, YANK, The Army Weekly, 205 East 42d Street, New York 17, N. Y. Overseas letters will be printed in a future issue.
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