Tengblad - St. Olaf College

Women’s employment rate skyrocketed during WWII. According to Nancy A. Walker, author of Shaping Our Mothers’ World: American Women’s Magazines, “from 1940 to 1945, the number of women working outside the home grew from 12 to 18 million, and of these, 5 million had industrial jobs; 17 percent of shipyard workers were female” (81). ................
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