My grandma worked in factories during that time. It was because of those jobs that she was able to buy her own home rather than rent since grandpa passed in 1935.
My great grandmother worked in the factories that made the Higgins Boats, the boats that allowed things like Normandy to be possible, she's a cool woman for her 80th birthday she went skydiving cause that's the kinda woman she is.
My grandma worked for Boeing during WWII. she was so proud of it. She was about 5' and weighed about 99lbs...so tiny...but my god...she was such an incredibly strong woman
My mother was a gas welder in an ammo plant in St. Louis, MO during WWII. She welded the weatherproof ammo containers with a gas torch. My father water tested them in a tank next to her. That's how they met. That was 1942. The rest is history as I ended up coming along 11 years afterwards. I found this film very interesting and informative.
I am so thankful for the women who worked hard and paved the way for me to be a career women. I have all the respect for women who want to be stay-at-home moms and/or want children, but the thought of it for me is completely disparaging. I live in an area where it is strongly preferred for women to stay at home with a bunch of kids. Growing up I absolutely dreaded this until I realized I didn't have to. I would not be able to do what makes me happy without these women.
One of the post-war challenges was that the men who had been overseas weren't very aware of the changing roles of women. Not only did women become increasingly employed in skilled labor jobs, they were in charge of their lives in a new way across the board -- they weren't cooking dinner for Ward Cleaver to come home at night. The returning men probably figured they would pick up where they left off but they encountered some surprises.
Yes. I remember TV propaganda continuing afterwards. Shows like ' Father Knows Best', or even motherless homes were rampant. I didn't recognise it at the time. It was just after the Korean War. Looking back, I see it for what it was. Weird propaganda that was confusing for growing girls.
I was just saying this to my husband but from the females perspective when the men came back, how they were expected to return to their roles in the home like nothing happened
My great grandparents were engaged during this time. My great grandmother stated she loved the fact that she had her first job during the war. She worked as a sheet metal factory worker. She said work kept her mind off the war. They are the reason why I’m in the military. I’m the only woman in my family to join
My grandfather was in the SeaBees in the Pacific and my grandmother was a nurse during WWII. My grandfather would land right after the Marines on an island and they would begin clearing the vegetation and start building airstrips, while the marines were still fighting the Japanese on the island. He ran a bulldozer and he said bullets would be singing on the canopy of the bulldozer while he worked. One bullet hit him in the helmet but he just kept working as it was safer in the bulldozer. I saw a picture of the helmet. The bullet didn't go through but it left a good-sized dent. Grandpa had quite a few pictures from that time. One of my favorites was a picture of him and his buddies riding a tiny train that the Marines captured. The train was used to haul supplies into a huge tunnel system on the island. He said that was one of the toughest fights the Marines had during the Pacific campaign that he saw. My grandmother didn't talk much about that time but I know it was harrowing from what little she said. You should do a video on the female "calculators" that academia employed before computers were a thing.
Good for your grandparents! I would bet your poor grandma saw many horrific things as a war nurse. I would bet lots of nurses may have seen worse back then, then some soldiers! I bet she wanted to spare you and may not have wanted to relive it!
My husband’s Aunt Rosie Worrell left Tennessee and went to California to work in the war factories. She was an amazing fearless woman that I was proud to know. Can you imagine never leaving your home before and just moving across the country to get a job, she also sent money back home to her struggling family because times were hard and she wanted to help her Widowed Mother.
My mother was a riveter on aircraft in Detroit during World War II. Before that she was laborer in the farm field. She had originally applied for the military but was turned down because she was too short (from poor nutrition). By the time they lowered their standards she was already working, and since she was making more money than she ever did at harvest time and was sending money back to her mother, she decided to keep her job.
God bless her and the men and women who contributed to the war effort. Just spoke to a couple who as children played their part on the American homefront during WWII experiencing rationing of food and other essentials and also planting victory gardens.
The Rosies are my real life superheros. They paved the way for women like my mother and myself. God Bless those women! My older daughter and I were part of the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest gathering of Rosies/impersonators on 3-29-2014 & 10-24-2015 at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Mi. The first one she was the youngest Rosie present (3 months) and was held for a photo opportunity by the oldest Rosie present, 97. A total of 3 original Rosies held her that day and she screamed for every single one of them while I was embarrassed yet beamed with pride that a ROSIE was holding MY daughter! There is a video of the second gathering of 2,000 of us singing the national anthem, filmed from outside the hangar. It's haunting sounding yet SO COOL!
My Nana work in an ammunition factory in South Wales. My grampy was in the army and was stuck on Dunkirk beach for 3 days and 2 nights. My great gran was a sufferergette and an unofficial midwife before the UK had a NHS. My great gramp fought in WW1. I’m so proud to be their grandchildren. They made a difference and were so brave.
My great grandmother was a parachute inspector at a factory in Nazareth, PA during WWII. The women in our family were skilled seamstresses, and Grammy Mildred took it very seriously that her name appeared on all those inspection labels. She prayed over each one for good measure, and raised holy hell when a defective one came across her station. Her name may have been the last thing a service member saw if they had to bail, and she had no problem bringing misery to anyone who didn't understand that every single stitch carried the life of a man who deserved to come home safe to his family.
My grandmother worked in the Pittsburgh mills that ended up making steel for the war, then became a pediatric nurse after the war. She had a scar on her neck and chest where she said that hot metal fell down into her apron. She was tough as hell. =)
My grandparents worked at Lockheed Martin & met there after the war. She was divorced and single when she met my grandpa. She was able to buy her own brand new car after saving up $3-4000 for it all on her own. It was a Cougar. LOL ;) And to my mother's knowledge, childcare was pretty much the older sibling watching the younger ones. No CPS was called for that back then. But if they got in trouble they got it when grandma got home. Actually, come to think about it, no wonder my mom says she was always beat up by older siblings with grandma at work all the time. Guess we need childcare other than children watching children. And yes, I would have joined the war to beat the Nazi's... if only for that reason.
Great video, I was in a beautiful marriage before my now ex wife left me,i still love her and most times i cant stop thinking about her, i am doing my very best to get rid of the thought of her, but i just cant, i love her so much, i dont know why i am bring this here for, i cant stop thinking about her.
its always difficult to let go of someone you love, i was in a similar situation my wife for 12 years left me, i couldnt just let her go i did all i could to get her back, i had to seek the help of a spiritual adviser who helped me bring her back.
My maternal grandmother worked in an airplane assembly plant and my paternal grandmother worked in the engineering and design department on the Manhattan Project. Our grandparents really are the GREATEST generation!
My grandma is 99 and tells me about the 3 choices she had when the war began (in Britain this is): munitions, farms or the hospital (broad definitions). Hallowing stories from the war and incredible to hear. We should never forget what happened and that they were real people and some, few, are still around to tell the stories soon to be confined to history books...
When I was a teenager I had a job at my uncle’s company. One of his employees was a WWII vet. His wife’s name was Rose. He called her Rosie the Rivitah in his strong Rhode Island accent. This made me think about the old times.
its crazy how theyve managed to force women back out of these fields where we can clearly excel, yet today people still think of welders, aircraft manufacturers and engineers, even truck drivers as male-exclusive jobs
I used to work in a mill. Every day some a**hat would tell me that he hates seeing me take a job that should go to a man with a family. Every day I had to tell some a**hat that I have a family; WOMEN have families; in case you don't know it, that's how we families get our babies: we WOMEN have them.
I feel like they are male exclusive because most woman don't even want them. I wouldn't want to be a brick layer or oil field worker. I've worked in machine shops and construction and I can manage but I can't compare to a man in those fields. I wouldn't hire a female to do a man's job just like I wouldn't hire a man to be my childs babysitter. Not that men and women can't reverse rolls but in general there are many jobs that a man would be better than a woman and vise versa. Just my opinion. FJB!
I’ve been told my grandmother and grandfather worked on the LST program in Evansville Indiana…working different shifts. I have a small monkey wrench pin with what looks like a pearl in the end. Not sure if it was grandma’s but…. Thanks to all the women who contributed to the war effort!!!
My Great Grandmother was a nurse she had small children at home but kept working until she retired in the 1980s. Myself in the 1990s as a young woman I spent 7 years at a factory 3 of them as a single mom. I think I could have made the best of needing to work in wartime
Go ladies ! Always stand your ground on everything, you ladies deserve the best the world has to offer, never let things interfer in your wishes for you and your children!
Great topic. I did notice that at 7:54 the photo of the harried looking woman with children is a cropped version of a famous pic from the Dust Bowl era- not WWII. 😮
My paternal grandmother was a "Rosie the Riveter'. She made aircraft engines for B-25s. She was so small she could climb into the engine housing to work on them. My maternal grandmother, along with my great-aunts worked in a factory and made parachutes. Whenever I see newsreels of B-25s or of airborne troops during that era, I wonder if those planes or the parachutes were the ones my grandmothers and great-aunts made.
As a nurse, it's hard to say what I would have done at the time, join the army or fill the open positions left by others at home. I'm a 3rd generation nurse and my grandmother ( who was already married at the beginning of war) stayed home and worked locally until my mom was born.
There's a song by Gracie Fields that perfectly encapsulates the British experience of female workers in WW2 called "The Thingummy Bob (That;s Going To Win The War)" It wasn't just you lot you know. Same thing in Britain.
With living in Ashton under Lynn England half my life and the other Half in America with holding citizenship in both countries, I have heard what you are saying with Gracie fields . The old factories used for employment for women and unfortunately children still stand throughout England and frankly the stories I heard of where children were involved was absolutely heart breaking to me. But without the women in these factories, I believe the war efforts would of been a lot worse and they were the true backbone of the country in addition having women in the factories offered security for the unfortunate children in the factories as well I feel. Great Britain was way worse for children during these years than America however during the world wars.
Any historical topic about women would be great: Frontier women, settlers, women during and after the War between the States, The societal role of Native American women, Pre-Code Actresses, Spies, Corporate women, women inventors, women scientists, women in faith stories, Sufferage movement, Women's Temperance Groups, even women pirates, courtiers. Women have always been strong figures in history. If you don't think so, you don't know your history.
My mom worked in one of those factories in the Detroit area. I was pretty young when she told me about it, but I remember her saying she had to do something that she had to lift her leg up and press down on a pedal and her legs would get sore! That's all I remember about it. I never heard her talk about it again.
My maternal grandmother was a riveter at the Willow Run Bomber Plant (Ypsilanti/Belleview) MI where the Ford Motor Company produced B-24 Liberator heavy bomber aircraft. Grandma met my step-grandfather while working at Willow Run, and they were married in 1946.
My mother was a riveter on the P61 Black Widow night fighter, while my father was a Merchant Marine serving on oil tankers in the Pacific. I was born in January of 1942. My babysitter was a lady who lived next door(she and her husband owned a neighborhood grocery store). Although meat and candy were rationed, I never lacked for the candy, and mom and I always had a "little extra" in the meat category(mom always said she thought some our meat was probably horse). When my dad got home after the war, mom went back to being a home maker, not working until I went to high school. Being a Merchant Marine, my dad didn't get any G.I. benefits, and didn't seem to miss being a "Rosy the Riveter".
This was a great video. This video proves the US does better; more equal pay, women had a better chance to get ahead. Women became confident and independent and it showed men that women can do the jobs just as well as the men, if not better. Harsh reality and old, sexist stereotype standards returned when the men came home from war
My Mum was a factory worker in WWII, but in Britain, where they drafted women into war work. I'm glad she got drafted! She met my Dad, who was stationed near the factory.
My mother worked in the nation’s largest inland ship builder during World War II. She wasn’t quite Rosie the Riveter, as she worked as an office secretary. Rosie the Rolodexer, I guess.
I have a lot of respect for those ladies. To take on a grueling hard job is admirable. I'm not mechanically inclined so I couldn't have done those kind of jobs.
Thank you for giving our story the dignity its deserves. Unfortunately women were having to raise kids on their own with husbands over seas. They did it and mostly benefited from being paid a man's wage. Pink collar jobs didn't pay enough to feed a family (pink collar like secretary). It was always assumed that you had a husband and that was the bread winner so women's jobs paid as little as they could get away with. Also a lot of men's attitudes was 'Thanks honey now go back to banging those pots and pans" and get back in the kitchen". After you have broadened your skill set for the real world.
I have worked in two factories: an underwater sea connector factory (Subconn) and a cheese factory (Midwest Dairy Farmers). Though it is common for those in the following generations to think they are above factory work, they can work factory jobs like the generations did before them.
So many women got industrial jobs during wartime that it's become known as the first time women worked in industrial jobs. BUT, That's not reality. Many of my ancestors and relatives (men and women) worked for one of the various Westinghouse companies since the late 1890's. Westinghouse employed many women in manufacturing of things like switches, transformers and vacuum tubes, not just in wartime, My great grandmother worked at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufactuing company in 1905! Western Electric (Makers of telephones for the Bell System) also employed many women in manufacturing. As did the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Electronics makers employed women as they were (often correctly) seen as having greater dexterity assembling the small parts used in electronics. I also had a great AUNT who was a process chemist with Eastman Kodak in the 1920s-30s. Women workers weren't ALL clerical workers, even before WWII.
Thank you, gals. Thank you all! I just thought of it how about a video about what German citizens did after the war how did they rebuild all that rubble and ruin and start their lives again after shitler?
That would be a good video. Germany was obviously occupied after the war and the allies supervised cleaning it all up, but I'd like to see a video on it.
My grandmother Ruby Lucinda worked at a WWII munitions factory in Hendon Adelaide, Sth Australia. 20 years later my mother worked in the same factory when it was Phillips Electronics...
Having ANOTHER Weird History drink! Drinking coffee with creamer*†...while watching this Weird History video! That is THE factory drink! I first started drinking coffee when I drank coffee with creamer, it was at the underwater sea connector factory now named Subconn. * Inspired by the Weird History videos about the Industrial Revolution. † When I first started working at the place now known as Subconn, I was a machinist's assistant and used a lot of specialized manufacturing tables like lathes, crimpers, and drills. My boss was from Finland (excellent boss btw) and to this day is the only Finnish person I know personally.
FUN FACT: No videos were made by the War Manpower Commission. Or made by anyone else during World War II. Video recording was not practical until 1956, 11 years after the war ended. They DID make films though.
My grandmother inspected parachute seems and once told me that the camouflage ones affected her vision for the rest of her life. She raised 7 children and never complained about her eyesight.
My Mother was a real Rosie the Riveter, working in the Green River munitions plant in Dixon, Illinois. Her name was ROSE (although I don’t remember anyone calling her Rosie). She was still in her teens and took a bus from her home in Sterling/Rock Falls. She never really talked about it, but she did tell me she made bazooka rockets. #theGreatestGeneration
One does what one can, & I would. Mom lived through the war as a child with her brother & mother - father died earlier - tough life for them at the time...
Have any of the dog tags that the Nazis took from the Allies been found? Is there any way to get them? ps: my Dad was in Stalag IV and I'd like his dog tag.
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My grandma worked in factories during that time. It was because of those jobs that she was able to buy her own home rather than rent since grandpa passed in 1935.
Fantastic footage. Good documentaries. Love watching it: th-cam.com/video/EdoZMurKQJA/w-d-xo.html
Too bad we can’t buy homes now 😂 housing market is a mess
Same, but my grandpapi came back disabled
@@AstarionWifey I have a feeling housing prices are going to drop real soon. Bad part is interest is going to go up.
I love how life can fall into place for us sometimes. I
Thanks for sharing
My great grandmother worked in the factories that made the Higgins Boats, the boats that allowed things like Normandy to be possible, she's a cool woman for her 80th birthday she went skydiving cause that's the kinda woman she is.
Was it her idea to install ramps that opened forwards _into_ machine gun fire?
she sounds very cool
A truly inspiring woman sounds like!!
Wow!that's so awesome.
My grandma worked for Boeing during WWII. she was so proud of it. She was about 5' and weighed about 99lbs...so tiny...but my god...she was such an incredibly strong woman
Strong grandma ftw😂
Most women became stronger and more independent during the world wars indeed for the war efforts. She was a great role model for you, I can tell.
Sounds like a bitch
Imagine somebody caring...
Ole Granny Good Guts knew how to throw that mafucka back too!
My mother was a gas welder in an ammo plant in St. Louis, MO during WWII. She welded the weatherproof ammo containers with a gas torch. My father water tested them in a tank next to her. That's how they met. That was 1942. The rest is history as I ended up coming along 11 years afterwards. I found this film very interesting and informative.
My grandma Honey was a Rosie the Riveter; she made torpedo propellers. It caused her hearing damage. I had to talk loudly to her her whole life.
Hazardous Job, but she is one tough woman.
Respect to her and other Rozie that work from her section.
I am so thankful for the women who worked hard and paved the way for me to be a career women. I have all the respect for women who want to be stay-at-home moms and/or want children, but the thought of it for me is completely disparaging. I live in an area where it is strongly preferred for women to stay at home with a bunch of kids. Growing up I absolutely dreaded this until I realized I didn't have to. I would not be able to do what makes me happy without these women.
One of the post-war challenges was that the men who had been overseas weren't very aware of the changing roles of women. Not only did women become increasingly employed in skilled labor jobs, they were in charge of their lives in a new way across the board -- they weren't cooking dinner for Ward Cleaver to come home at night. The returning men probably figured they would pick up where they left off but they encountered some surprises.
Yes. I remember TV propaganda continuing afterwards. Shows like ' Father Knows Best', or even motherless homes were rampant. I didn't recognise it at the time. It was just after the Korean War. Looking back, I see it for what it was. Weird propaganda that was confusing for growing girls.
Nobody cares. Thats common asf.
@@austinhooton1383 this was an idiotic and ignorant response.
WWI destroyed the world they knew, even in America.
I was just saying this to my husband but from the females perspective when the men came back, how they were expected to return to their roles in the home like nothing happened
My great grandparents were engaged during this time. My great grandmother stated she loved the fact that she had her first job during the war. She worked as a sheet metal factory worker. She said work kept her mind off the war.
They are the reason why I’m in the military. I’m the only woman in my family to join
Thank you for your service
My mom cleaned other peoples houses during the war and my dad was a mechanic.
Some women, especially those who were from Hollywood, were employed at entertainment of the soldiers or were employed in canteens.
FDR locked up a lot of Japanese Americans in work camps just because their race,
My grandfather was in the SeaBees in the Pacific and my grandmother was a nurse during WWII. My grandfather would land right after the Marines on an island and they would begin clearing the vegetation and start building airstrips, while the marines were still fighting the Japanese on the island. He ran a bulldozer and he said bullets would be singing on the canopy of the bulldozer while he worked. One bullet hit him in the helmet but he just kept working as it was safer in the bulldozer. I saw a picture of the helmet. The bullet didn't go through but it left a good-sized dent. Grandpa had quite a few pictures from that time. One of my favorites was a picture of him and his buddies riding a tiny train that the Marines captured. The train was used to haul supplies into a huge tunnel system on the island. He said that was one of the toughest fights the Marines had during the Pacific campaign that he saw. My grandmother didn't talk much about that time but I know it was harrowing from what little she said.
You should do a video on the female "calculators" that academia employed before computers were a thing.
My grandfather was also in the SeaBees in the Pacific. He was always a quiet man, so we know little about what he experienced.
Good for your grandparents! I would bet your poor grandma saw many horrific things as a war nurse. I would bet lots of nurses may have seen worse back then, then some soldiers! I bet she wanted to spare you and may not have wanted to relive it!
SEABEES are the best combat engineers in the world.
My husband’s Aunt Rosie Worrell left Tennessee and went to California to work in the war factories. She was an amazing fearless woman that I was proud to know. Can you imagine never leaving your home before and just moving across the country to get a job, she also sent money back home to her struggling family because times were hard and she wanted to help her Widowed Mother.
My mother was a riveter on aircraft in Detroit during World War II. Before that she was laborer in the farm field. She had originally applied for the military but was turned down because she was too short (from poor nutrition). By the time they lowered their standards she was already working, and since she was making more money than she ever did at harvest time and was sending money back to her mother, she decided to keep her job.
God bless her and the men and women who contributed to the war effort. Just spoke to a couple who as children played their part on the American homefront during WWII experiencing rationing of food and other essentials and also planting victory gardens.
The Rosies are my real life superheros. They paved the way for women like my mother and myself. God Bless those women!
My older daughter and I were part of the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest gathering of Rosies/impersonators on 3-29-2014 & 10-24-2015 at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Mi. The first one she was the youngest Rosie present (3 months) and was held for a photo opportunity by the oldest Rosie present, 97. A total of 3 original Rosies held her that day and she screamed for every single one of them while I was embarrassed yet beamed with pride that a ROSIE was holding MY daughter! There is a video of the second gathering of 2,000 of us singing the national anthem, filmed from outside the hangar. It's haunting sounding yet SO COOL!
My Nana work in an ammunition factory in South Wales. My grampy was in the army and was stuck on Dunkirk beach for 3 days and 2 nights. My great gran was a sufferergette and an unofficial midwife before the UK had a NHS. My great gramp fought in WW1. I’m so proud to be their grandchildren. They made a difference and were so brave.
My great grandmother was a parachute inspector at a factory in Nazareth, PA during WWII. The women in our family were skilled seamstresses, and Grammy Mildred took it very seriously that her name appeared on all those inspection labels. She prayed over each one for good measure, and raised holy hell when a defective one came across her station. Her name may have been the last thing a service member saw if they had to bail, and she had no problem bringing misery to anyone who didn't understand that every single stitch carried the life of a man who deserved to come home safe to his family.
It would be great to see a video about Norman Rockwell and the 60+ years of his legendary artwork.
Thank you for all the inspirational content Weird History. The stories are great and the narrator is wickedly funny.
My grandmother worked in the Pittsburgh mills that ended up making steel for the war, then became a pediatric nurse after the war. She had a scar on her neck and chest where she said that hot metal fell down into her apron. She was tough as hell. =)
My grandparents worked at Lockheed Martin & met there after the war. She was divorced and single when she met my grandpa. She was able to buy her own brand new car after saving up $3-4000 for it all on her own. It was a Cougar. LOL ;) And to my mother's knowledge, childcare was pretty much the older sibling watching the younger ones. No CPS was called for that back then. But if they got in trouble they got it when grandma got home. Actually, come to think about it, no wonder my mom says she was always beat up by older siblings with grandma at work all the time. Guess we need childcare other than children watching children. And yes, I would have joined the war to beat the Nazi's... if only for that reason.
Great video, I was in a beautiful marriage before my now ex wife left me,i still love her and most times i cant stop thinking about her, i am doing my very best to get rid of the thought of her, but i just cant, i love her so much, i dont know why i am bring this here for, i cant stop thinking about her.
its always difficult to let go of someone you love, i was in a similar situation my wife for 12 years left me, i couldnt just let her go i did all i could to get her back, i had to seek the help of a spiritual adviser who helped me bring her back.
@@jackroyston3263 wow, how did you get a spiritual adviser, and how do i reach her?
@@haynesatteh4463 her name is SHELLY RENEE WHITE,and she is a great spiritual adviser as well as caster
@@jackroyston3263 Thank you for this valuable information, i just looked her up now online. impressive.
it must be a bad time to be in love
My maternal grandmother worked in an airplane assembly plant and my paternal grandmother worked in the engineering and design department on the Manhattan Project.
Our grandparents really are the GREATEST generation!
My grandma is 99 and tells me about the 3 choices she had when the war began (in Britain this is): munitions, farms or the hospital (broad definitions). Hallowing stories from the war and incredible to hear.
We should never forget what happened and that they were real people and some, few, are still around to tell the stories soon to be confined to history books...
Record your grandma telling stories from her younger life; it would be a gift to the world!
Listen to Ruby. I wish I would've recorded my gramma's stories when she was alive.
I was Rosie the Riverter for Halloween last year because since I work in a factory that was the only costume I can think to wear.
When I was a teenager I had a job at my uncle’s company. One of his employees was a WWII vet. His wife’s name was Rose. He called her Rosie the Rivitah in his strong Rhode Island accent. This made me think about the old times.
its crazy how theyve managed to force women back out of these fields where we can clearly excel, yet today people still think of welders, aircraft manufacturers and engineers, even truck drivers as male-exclusive jobs
I used to work in a mill. Every day some a**hat would tell me that he hates seeing me take a job that should go to a man with a family. Every day I had to tell some a**hat that I have a family; WOMEN have families; in case you don't know it, that's how we families get our babies: we WOMEN have them.
@@lindac6919 😲
I feel like they are male exclusive because most woman don't even want them. I wouldn't want to be a brick layer or oil field worker. I've worked in machine shops and construction and I can manage but I can't compare to a man in those fields. I wouldn't hire a female to do a man's job just like I wouldn't hire a man to be my childs babysitter. Not that men and women can't reverse rolls but in general there are many jobs that a man would be better than a woman and vise versa. Just my opinion.
FJB!
By all means jump in there and get you some !
Women haven't been forced out of those jobs women don't want to do those jobs b
We once had subsidized childcare for working parents, why can’t this still be a thing?
Who is going to pay for it?
Thank you, ladies
I’ve been told my grandmother and grandfather worked on the LST program in Evansville Indiana…working different shifts. I have a small monkey wrench pin with what looks like a pearl in the end. Not sure if it was grandma’s but…. Thanks to all the women who contributed to the war effort!!!
My Great Grandmother was a nurse she had small children at home but kept working until she retired in the 1980s. Myself in the 1990s as a young woman I spent 7 years at a factory 3 of them as a single mom. I think I could have made the best of needing to work in wartime
Great video man. Best narrator on here. Can't wait for the next TIMELINE! The best! Cheers from 🇨🇦✌️
Wow! That's women empowerment! ♀️💄♀️💄♀️
Go ladies ! Always stand your ground on everything, you ladies deserve the best the world has to offer, never let things interfer in your wishes for you and your children!
Great topic. I did notice that at 7:54 the photo of the harried looking woman with children is a cropped version of a famous pic from the Dust Bowl era- not WWII. 😮
This was a fascinating video!! Amazing all the work they did in short amount of time.
Love this video thank you :)
His stand ups are fantastic. Every single one.
My paternal grandmother was a "Rosie the Riveter'. She made aircraft engines for B-25s. She was so small she could climb into the engine housing to work on them. My maternal grandmother, along with my great-aunts worked in a factory and made parachutes. Whenever I see newsreels of B-25s or of airborne troops during that era, I wonder if those planes or the parachutes were the ones my grandmothers and great-aunts made.
This channel makes my day. Like everyday I start my day with weird history vides...
As a nurse, it's hard to say what I would have done at the time, join the army or fill the open positions left by others at home. I'm a 3rd generation nurse and my grandmother ( who was already married at the beginning of war) stayed home and worked locally until my mom was born.
thank you for the interesting information!
My Grandma is still twice the man I'll ever be.
Dude, you're amazing ❤️
There's a song by Gracie Fields that perfectly encapsulates the British experience of female workers in WW2 called "The Thingummy Bob (That;s Going To Win The War)" It wasn't just you lot you know. Same thing in Britain.
With living in Ashton under Lynn England half my life and the other Half in America with holding citizenship in both countries, I have heard what you are saying with Gracie fields . The old factories used for employment for women and unfortunately children still stand throughout England and frankly the stories I heard of where children were involved was absolutely heart breaking to me. But without the women in these factories, I believe the war efforts would of been a lot worse and they were the true backbone of the country in addition having women in the factories offered security for the unfortunate children in the factories as well I feel. Great Britain was way worse for children during these years than America however during the world wars.
I'm still shocked that British propaganda is still alive today, carrots makes your eyes better....LOLOLOL...good show brits on that lie. :)
This was a wonderful true story of the woman during WW2 half of all my family were in the service or doing work for the war,
Any historical topic about women would be great: Frontier women, settlers, women during and after the War between the States, The societal role of Native American women, Pre-Code Actresses, Spies, Corporate women, women inventors, women scientists, women in faith stories, Sufferage movement, Women's Temperance Groups, even women pirates, courtiers. Women have always been strong figures in history. If you don't think so, you don't know your history.
Thanks for the video 👌
The next time the women better get ready to fight equal rights today getting women on the front lines no excuses everybody is equal.
Someone's butthurt
My mom worked in one of those factories in the Detroit area. I was pretty young when she told me about it, but I remember her saying she had to do something that she had to lift her leg up and press down on a pedal and her legs would get sore! That's all I remember about it. I never heard her talk about it again.
My maternal grandmother was a riveter at the Willow Run Bomber Plant (Ypsilanti/Belleview) MI where the Ford Motor Company produced B-24 Liberator heavy bomber aircraft. Grandma met my step-grandfather while working at Willow Run, and they were married in 1946.
My mother was a riveter on the P61 Black Widow night fighter, while my father was a Merchant Marine serving on oil tankers in the Pacific. I was born in January of 1942. My babysitter was a lady who lived next door(she and her husband owned a neighborhood grocery store). Although meat and candy were rationed, I never lacked for the candy, and mom and I always had a "little extra" in the meat category(mom always said she thought some our meat was probably horse). When my dad got home after the war, mom went back to being a home maker, not working until I went to high school. Being a Merchant Marine, my dad didn't get any G.I. benefits, and didn't seem to miss being a "Rosy the Riveter".
I’m in the trades I appreciate these ladies paving the way ❤❤❤
Thanks for the much needed information! Love the channel :)
This is so cool because my grandma helped rivet ships back together in WWII. Getting the popcorn now.
I’m glad you talked about African American women and their part in the war.👍🏾
Now this is women empowerment
This was a great video. This video proves the US does better; more equal pay, women had a better chance to get ahead. Women became confident and independent and it showed men that women can do the jobs just as well as the men, if not better. Harsh reality and old, sexist stereotype standards returned when the men came home from war
My Mum was a factory worker in WWII, but in Britain, where they drafted women into war work. I'm glad she got drafted! She met my Dad, who was stationed near the factory.
Much respect!
My mother worked in the nation’s largest inland ship builder during World War II. She wasn’t quite Rosie the Riveter, as she worked as an office secretary. Rosie the Rolodexer, I guess.
I have a lot of respect for those ladies. To take on a grueling hard job is admirable. I'm not mechanically inclined so I couldn't have done those kind of jobs.
Thank you for giving our story the dignity its deserves. Unfortunately women were having to raise kids on their own with husbands over seas. They did it and mostly benefited from being paid a man's wage. Pink collar jobs didn't pay enough to feed a family (pink collar like secretary). It was always assumed that you had a husband and that was the bread winner so women's jobs paid as little as they could get away with. Also a lot of men's attitudes was 'Thanks honey now go back to banging those pots and pans" and get back in the kitchen". After you have broadened your skill set for the real world.
YEP!
My grandmother was a WAC in WWII. Stationed in New Guinea & the Philippines.
Great as usual! Love this channel ❤
I have worked in two factories: an underwater sea connector factory (Subconn) and a cheese factory (Midwest Dairy Farmers).
Though it is common for those in the following generations to think they are above factory work, they can work factory jobs like the generations did before them.
So many women got industrial jobs during wartime that it's become known as the first time women worked in industrial jobs. BUT, That's not reality. Many of my ancestors and relatives (men and women) worked for one of the various Westinghouse companies since the late 1890's. Westinghouse employed many women in manufacturing of things like switches, transformers and vacuum tubes, not just in wartime, My great grandmother worked at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufactuing company in 1905! Western Electric (Makers of telephones for the Bell System) also employed many women in manufacturing. As did the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Electronics makers employed women as they were (often correctly) seen as having greater dexterity assembling the small parts used in electronics. I also had a great AUNT who was a process chemist with Eastman Kodak in the 1920s-30s. Women workers weren't ALL clerical workers, even before WWII.
Video summary: Women are actually really badass, just give us a chance.
Female power! Let's go, sisters! 👧👧👩👩
I can't really be called a sister but I fully support women's rights regarding everything.
My grandma did her part working at the Buick factory in Melrose Park. She inspected and tested B-24 engines.
Cybertron 😂 “Transformers” reference!
Thank you, gals. Thank you all!
I just thought of it how about a video about what German citizens did after the war how did they rebuild all that rubble and ruin and start their lives again after shitler?
That would be a good video. Germany was obviously occupied after the war and the allies supervised cleaning it all up, but I'd like to see a video on it.
They were REAL versions of strong women!
When it came time for Queen Elizabeth to do her military service, she manufactured military jeeps.
It's crazy how fast the auto industry forgot that women built all the planes and tanks during the war. Like they weren't capable of the work.
These women are good builders. I'm gonna ask my girlfriend to build me a tank.
Thank you for including the subsidized childcare. That is often left out when talking about Rosie's.
I think many today think they did this with enthusiaism. Many did not. They did simply to survive and feed the kids
As a female manufacturing engineer, I cannot wait to watch this video 💪🏼
I can't believe it.... I'm FIRST!!! :D Love this channel! Thanks for giving me something fun to listen to during work!
You're first? There's a guy named Tristan claiming the same thing, but just incase here's a 🍪 just for you being first.
Actually third, but nobody has ever cared about anybody being first - sorry, somebody had to tell you.
"The girl with the flaxen hair" was a nice music choice when talking about rosie the riveter
My grandmother Ruby Lucinda worked at a WWII munitions factory in Hendon Adelaide, Sth Australia. 20 years later my mother worked in the same factory when it was Phillips Electronics...
Interesting and informative thank you.
Series. Life of a bomber crew. Fighter pilot, ground crew. Photo reconnaissance crew
Child care support, equal pay, and anti-discrimination end in peace. Lest we forget.
Having ANOTHER Weird History drink!
Drinking coffee with creamer*†...while watching this Weird History video!
That is THE factory drink!
I first started drinking coffee when I drank coffee with creamer, it was at the underwater sea connector factory now named Subconn.
* Inspired by the Weird History videos about the Industrial Revolution.
† When I first started working at the place now known as Subconn, I was a machinist's assistant and used a lot of specialized manufacturing tables like lathes, crimpers, and drills. My boss was from Finland (excellent boss btw) and to this day is the only Finnish person I know personally.
FUN FACT: No videos were made by the War Manpower Commission. Or made by anyone else during World War II. Video recording was not practical until 1956, 11 years after the war ended. They DID make films though.
My grandma worked at Masseys making tanks. Both of her husbands were in ww2. One stormed the beach in Normandy and survived.
My grandmother inspected parachute seems and once told me that the camouflage ones affected her vision for the rest of her life. She raised 7 children and never complained about her eyesight.
Such a great generation, they knew how to do the work to succeed. No way this happens today though
Imagine having a high paid job, union membership, free daycare, and no husband around. That must have been a hell of a time to live.
9:51 ayo child care in basements lol?
My Mother was a real Rosie the Riveter, working in the Green River munitions plant in Dixon, Illinois. Her name was ROSE (although I don’t remember anyone calling her Rosie). She was still in her teens and took a bus from her home in Sterling/Rock Falls. She never really talked about it, but she did tell me she made bazooka rockets. #theGreatestGeneration
My Aunt was a riveter during WW2. She is still alive. Age 97. One tough cookie.
My grandmother worked at the Maxon plant in Macon, Ga, making fuses for explosives, bombs, grenades.
Great breakdown!
My grandma was a nurse in the Pacific during this time. Dopest woman I know
Fuck yeah! Go women!
One does what one can, & I would. Mom lived through the war as a child with her brother & mother - father died earlier - tough life for them at the time...
DID YOU KNOW? This subject was a video starter for Pat Benetar’s ‘Shadows of the Night’ video!
My grandma worked in factories during that time making planes she was a Roise the Riveter
Have any of the dog tags that the Nazis took from the Allies been found? Is there any way to get them? ps: my Dad was in Stalag IV and I'd like his dog tag.
Amazing how we all came together. I would have joined the war effort!
Great story as always. Btw, can you do a video when the beatles came to the Philippines?