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Because of the significant decrease of men in the labor force the government decided to try and get women to join the labor force. The government was posting campaigns to gather women who are interested in joining the industrial labor pool which was needed to support the economy. Back then the women were considered the backbone for America's economy.
“The large number of enlisted men significantly decreased the available U.S. labor force. In 1942, the government began a propaganda campaign with the goal of encouraging women to join the industrial labor pool needed to support the economy and military” (“Rosie The Riveter”).
The women progressively made their way up during the wars and also became more independent, such as, during the revolutionary war wives, sisters, daughters, and mothers went with them on base in previous wars.
This shows that women had to keep working until they got the rights to serve in the military. This is also shown in many other wars such as in the civil war women began to serve as nurses on a larger scale. Around 12,000 women served for the civil war but they were telephone and radio operators and even translators. In World War II around 350,000 American women served in uniform.
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