This is according to my best memory - but it is now about 60 years later! 1943 - I was 17 and a college student. I worked full-time in the summer (later part-time during school year)in the office of an upscle womens dress store in So. California. Full-time meant 44 hours a week for office employees, sales clerks worked 48 hours a week. I made 50 cents an hour - $22.50 a week. There were no deductions (tax, social security, etc.). Best advantage was 15% off on wonderful things like Pringle cashmere sweaters (regular price: short sleeve pull-overs $11.95, long-sleeve cardigans $13.95). 1944 - I was 18 and a college student. College was then on 3 four month semesters a year. I worked the summer semester at a sattelite plant of North American Aviation (in a converted warehouse in So. Cal - very hot summer and no a/c!) where I did drilling and riveting on P-51s. Worked 10 hours a shift, 5 days a week - 5:30pm - 4:00am - half hour off for lunch (50 hours a week). I believe the hourly wage for regular time was $1 - however I worked 8 hours swing shift at time and a half ($1.50) and 2 hours overtime at double time ($2.00). There again were no deductions, however some had $18.75 a week decucted to buy war bonds, believe these matured in 10 years for $25.00. 1945 - 19 years old and still a college student. Worked during summer term at Cal Tech in the office of the chairman of the Chem Engr Dept. Czn't really remember the salary - but I believe it was 75 cents an hour, much better job, beautiful campus, extremely intelligent people, 8 hour day, 5 days a week. E-mail me for more info. And what excitement was it there during and following V-J Day! OK to E-mail me for more details.
Women who worked for the U.S. military (as nurses, clerks, typists, and sometimes pilots and other less-common jobs) were paid by the government.
Women who worked in "regular" jobs, often to replace men who were at war, were paid by the companies they worked for.
They made roughly one third what the men were paid. The women worked in 24 hour shifts. Even with paying them one third it still cost the war plants and government a lot of money to pay all those war plant workers.
They were paid about 1/3 of what a man made at the war plants. You have to consider that the men who were responsible for paying them did not know how well the women would do and they were running 24 hour shifts (which is very expensive). The men could make anywhere between 35 to 50 dollars a month depending on their job. The engineers were a paid more of course. Consider that 50 dollars a month would pay the mortgage payment on a house and bread was 5 for a dollar back then.
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women would get payed little as 5 pennys a day
At least 2 dollars an hour!
1/3 of what the men got in battle.
the men werent there at the time
During world war 2, there were about 25 % to 30 % of women who worked outside the house at paying jobs. More married women, more mothers, and more minority women found jobs than had before the war.
They could do jobs they couldn't before
During WWII women found atypical manufacturing jobs that were left vacant by men who left to fight. These jobs were welding, assembling, and riveting to name a few. This is where the phrase "Rosie the Riveter" came from. The tragedy is that when the men returned from war, the women were fired from the jobs they performed while the men were away.
The women's jobs outside the factory in world war 2 were to be housewives and take care of their children and supply food on the table for themselves and their children. Some of them could've taken up sewing as a ladies job and wasn't classed as a labor job that men were usually doing to earn some money for food.
The main reason why women did men's job during the world wars was because all the men (or most of them) were out fighting and their families needed the money to keep the families going. Also the money they earned they spent it on equipment for the war.
jobs in heavy industry
jobs in heavy industry
1. Medic
Women got jobs, and the demand for more supplies meant more money, which meant more and better industry.
the men werent there at the time
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Because millions of the men who normally did those jobs were in the Army and Navy.
During world war 2, there were about 25 % to 30 % of women who worked outside the house at paying jobs. More married women, more mothers, and more minority women found jobs than had before the war.
Women and black men did many jobs during the war that had previously been done only by white men. After the war, some were able to keep their new jobs, and many were not.
the men werent there at the time
Jobs that were hard like bome making