Question

• While women were asked to participate in a great national campaign for victory in the war, the main focus was what could be done to help men who served in the military and also men who directed and provided the main labor and the management for industry, commerce, and government in the US. What are the roles women were expected to play, according to WWII posters?
• Could these roles be characterized as gender discrimination and why?

In the middle column, write a summary statement for each poster about what is being recommended as a role for women in WWII. On the right, write in your opinion about whether and, if so, what kind of gender discrimination the poster suggests.

Evidence and Conclusion Chart

Poster	Women's Role	Gender Discrimination
Source 1: Keep Mum--The World Has Ears, Federal Art Project, between 1941 and 1943.
Source 2: Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity, Government Printing Office, 1942.
Source 3: Rationing Safeguards Your Share, Office of War Information (OWI), May 1942.
Source 4: Save Scrap for Victory! Save Metals, Save Paper, Save Rubber, Save Rags, Penna Art WPA, between 1941 and 1943.
Source 5: War Gardens for Victory--Grow Vitamins at your Kitchen Door, Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, New York, 1939 and 1945.
Source 6: Train to Be a Nurse's Aide, NYC WPA War Services, between 1941 and 1943.
Source 7: I've found the job where I fit best!" Find Your War Job in Industry-Agriculture-Business, Office of War Information, 1943.
Source 8: Wanted! For Murder, Her careless talk costs lives, NARA Still Picture Branch, 1944.
Source 9: We Can Do It!, Westinghouse, 1942.
Source 10: Longing won`t bring him back sooner...Get a War Job!, NARA Still Picture Branch, 1944.

Answer 1

1. Role :- Someone who should not talk or be careful in expressing.
   Discrimination :- Women are asked to keep mum while the rest of the country has the liberty to express.
2. Role :- To limit the consumption of the meat as per their fair share.
   Discrimination :- No apparent discrimination as the whole country is being addressed in the poster.
3. Role :- To limit and put a cap on the consumption of the family.
   Discrimination :- Women are being seen as the ones who are working for the family. This is evident as a women is portrayed to be buying groceries at a store.
4. Role :- Someone who should prevent the wastage of any metals
   Discrimination :- No apparent discrimination as the whole country is being addressed in the poster.
5. Role :- Women are being asked to grow more vitamin rich vegetables at their kitchen.
   Discrimination :- A woman is portrayed in the poster along with the vegetables and it is implied that it is the job of the woman to work for the nutritional needs of the family.
6. Role :- Women are being asked to get into a certain profession.
   Discrimination :- Women are being asked to get into a certain profession which has been stereotyped to be a woman's job.
7. Role :- Women are being asked to look for a job in the agricultural business.
   Discrimination :- Women are again being stereotyped to being fit for only certain jobs. The woman on the poster is also portrayed as being happy as she has found the perfectly fitting job.
8. Role :- Women are being asked to talk carefully in the time of the war as there might be some spies who are present around.
   Discrimination :- The portrayal of a women as if it were a liability to the country is discriminatory. Also, stereotyping that a woman is more likely to spill out national secrets is also a form of bias.
9. Role :- Women being asked to keep their morale up.
   Discrimination :- No apparent discrimination in the poster.
10. Role :- Women being asked to take up jobs in the forces.
    Discrimination :- Women are portrayed as beings who have no job but to wait for their male counterparts while they are serving the country.

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