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- W2263013820 abstract "The Curtiss-Wright Cadettes, sponsored by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, was a U.S. World War II program to recruit women into engineering to fill in for men who had been drawn into the war effort. Curtiss-Wright was in the process of scaling up mass production of armaments and needed skilled workers. The Corporation thus requested that the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education consult the engineering colleges to carry on a special program for preparing college women for responsibilities in engineering. 800 women were given accelerated training programs in major American universities and placed in engineering jobs at Curtiss-Wright facilities around the country. This paper examines the experiences of those women, based on documentary evidence and on a number of interviews with women who participated in the program. We explore the question of whether this program represented a breakthrough for women in engineering, demonstrating that women could serve well in that occupation and eventually leading to a growth in the numbers of women aspiring to engineering careers. Although many of the women who were recruited into the Cadettes had earlier technical education, few entered the program expecting to use it as a springboard to a technical career. Most saw it as a chance to do something enjoyable and to contribute to the war effort. When the war ended, the Cadettes were summarily let go by Curtiss-Wright; but, few of the participants seemed to expect anything different to happen. A few did go on to pursue professional careers in science and engineering, but most returned to more traditional roles after their wartime experience in engineering. The Cadettes program reveals the power of traditional gender expectations to limit women's ambitions and the ability of wartime conditions to define opportunities as momentary and exceptional." @default.
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- W2263013820 title "Curtiss-Wright engineering Cadettes: 21st century questions and issues" @default.
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