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With the need for war material production, the building of ships, planes, tanks and other war related goods increased dramatically. With much of the male labor force joining the military it only made good sense to place women in the positions vacated by the men. The women would fill non traditional roles as welders, steamfitters, electricians, machinery operators and air traffic controllers. They would also serve in the more traditional roles as secretaries, typists, and seamstresses.

The war production was a never ceasing twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week undertaking and it could not have been done as safely and efficiently without the women regardless of what job they did. Had the women not stepped up as they did, the World Wars may have taken a very different course.

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