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- W387393680 abstract "On January 28, 1942, The San Diego Tribune-Sun reported that sixty Pearl Harbor widows with the motto, “Keep ‘em flying to avenge our husbands’ deaths,” had applied for jobs in Lockheed and Vega Aircraft Companies in Burbank, California. After taking an aptitude test, whose results, according to the companies in question, were much better than average, the widows duly became the first women to obtain jobs under the new company policy of giving preference to those in need of employment as a result of wartime emergency1. These Pearl Harbor widows were particularly eager to get hired by an aircraft manufacturer because they, like most other Americans, believed that making military airplanes would be the most effective contribution to the war effort. Motivated either by patriotism or by pursuit of higher wages and better opportunities, 486,023 women acquired aircraft jobs during the Second World War, accounting for 36.6 percent of the entire aircraft industry labor force. In particular, women were a conspicuous presence in the aircraft plants and their subcontractors in southern California, which formed the core of U.S. military aircraft production. By the fall of 1943, approximately 150,000 female workers obtained aircraft jobs in the region and" @default.
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- W387393680 title "Gender and Work in the American Aircraft Industry during World War II" @default.
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