Item Detail
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English
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“Proud to Send Those Parachutes Off” : Central Utah’s Rosies during World War II
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Utah in the Twentieth Century
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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123-145
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"In 1940 women held 28 percent of the jobs in the nation, compared to 18 percent in Utah. Four years later, women fi gured more prominently in the Utah workforce (37 percent) than in the nation at large (36 percent). Lucrative opportunities for work in the Beehive State’s new and expanding defense installations and industries fueled the dramatic increase. Some women, like the legendary Rosie the Riveter, operated heavy equipment or machinery on the factory fl oor, challenging gender stereotypes by moving into jobs previously reserved for men. More women, like the parachute-factory workers in Manti that Amanda Midgley Borneman describes in this chapter, engaged in tasks such as sewing or secretarial work that corresponded more closely with traditional views of women’s work. Although sewing in a factory might be regarded as “natural” work for women, it nonetheless altered social and economic relationships, particularly for married women, reducing their economic dependence upon husbands and broadening their involvement beyond the farm and household. Using survey data from the 1980s and interviews with former workers, Borneman investigates women’s motives for working and some of the short-term and long-range implications of their wartime employment for themselves and their households." [Author]
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