![]() ![]() These are characteristics of such jobs as inspection of castings, machinings and finished parts of routine powder analysis of testing electrical equipment. Work requiring care and constant alertness, keen eyesight, and use of light instruments, such as gages, micrometers, verniers calipers-work calling for little physical exertion. Department of Labor, there are certain types of manual work required in war industries that women do particularly well, such as: They are employed in large numbers at manual jobs in powder plants, ammunition factories, arsenals, airplane factories, factories making gas masks, parachutes, time-bomb fuses, instrument factories and assembly plants, etc.Īccording to a pamphlet “Effective Industrial Use of Women in the Defense Program,” issued by the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. They have been hired to fill office positions in various industries working on war orders. Women as workers are involved in almost every phase of the national war preparation. This represents the contribution of 104,903 volunteers and 2,544 professional women, serving a total constituency in the United States of 2,625,968 women and girls. is now being channeled through the U.S.O., the grand total of its 990 permanent Associations and centers and 329 residences is at the disposal of the nation. While the immediate war effort of the Y.W.C.A. Twenty-one of these centers were exclusively for Negroes. At the close of the year 1941 this staff numbered 155 operating in 92 centers in 75 different localities. maintains directors and assistant directors in its U.S.O. and Miss Genevieve Lowry, correlator of the Y.W.C.A. ![]() and a member of the executive committee of the U.S.O. Hirth, executive secretary of the Y.W.C.A. Ingraham, president of the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. in its cooperative effort with the U.S.O. The program included recreation education in health, nutrition, first aid, and other essential subjects, counsel on personal problems, and spiritual guidance. Now as then, while doing its share for the men in uniform, it never forgets that its main purpose is to supply the needs of women and girls-wives and families of service men, workers in cantonment areas and in war industries, nurses and employees at military posts, and others directly affected by the emergency needs of the nation. centers close by camps, near navy yards, and in the big industrial defense areas. operated hostess houses on camp grounds as well as in large manufacturing areas. war service of 1917 differs from that of 1942. in the joint effort of the six agencies that form the U.S.O. In logical sequence comes the participation of the Y.W.C.A. to form a war work council of its own, and this council later cooperated with seven national agencies in the United War Work Campaign. When the American Association was founded near the close of the Civil War its first task was to tackle the problems of women whom the industrial development had made “dependent on their own exertions for support.” World War I inspired the Y.W.C.A. was founded in England its first practical job was to find homes for nurses returning from the Crimean war which incidentally, saw also the founding of the Red Cross. This international fellowship of women, sworn to the task of applying to daily life the ideals of the Christian religion, was born of one conflict and it was learned early that those ideals must be expressed in terms of each day’s need. In: Civil War, Reconstruction, and Progressivism, Eras in Social Welfare History, Organizations, World War I and the 1920s, World War II and the 1950s BRIEF HISTORY OF YWCA SERVICE IN TIMES OF WAR - 1942įour wars in a lifetime of eighty-six years is the record so far of the Y.W.C.A. ![]()
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