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Domestic News
November 11, 1942
The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
What is this article about?
Katherine F. Lenroot predicts 4,400,000 women will work in war industries by year's end, potentially more if married men with children are drafted. Historical data shows women's employment rising from 2.5 million in 1880 to over 11 million by 1940, with lower unemployment rates for women in 1930.
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WOMEN AT WORK
Wide World Features
Slated for greater prominence
as manpower is siphoned off in-
to the armed forces is the ques-
tion of women at work.
Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of
the children's bureau of the De-
partment of Labor, predicts 4,
400,000 women will be
working in war industries by the
end of this year—and if the draft
should call married men with
children before the war has end-
ed, demands for
women
war
workers would reach many mil-
lions more.
But the trend isn't new.
Since the middle of the last
century, when women
began
working outside their homes.
the number gainfully employed
has risen sharply and constantly
through periods of prosperity
and depression alike. In 1880,
the Census Bureau listed 2 1/2
million as gainful workers. By
1910 the number had risen to
above 8 million. By 1940 it had
gone up another 3 million.
The Unemployment Census
of 1930, taken when the de-
pression was already under way,
showed that while 5.4 per cent
of men able and willing to
work were unable to find it.
only 3.4 per cent of the women
were in the same predicament.
Wide World Features
Slated for greater prominence
as manpower is siphoned off in-
to the armed forces is the ques-
tion of women at work.
Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of
the children's bureau of the De-
partment of Labor, predicts 4,
400,000 women will be
working in war industries by the
end of this year—and if the draft
should call married men with
children before the war has end-
ed, demands for
women
war
workers would reach many mil-
lions more.
But the trend isn't new.
Since the middle of the last
century, when women
began
working outside their homes.
the number gainfully employed
has risen sharply and constantly
through periods of prosperity
and depression alike. In 1880,
the Census Bureau listed 2 1/2
million as gainful workers. By
1910 the number had risen to
above 8 million. By 1940 it had
gone up another 3 million.
The Unemployment Census
of 1930, taken when the de-
pression was already under way,
showed that while 5.4 per cent
of men able and willing to
work were unable to find it.
only 3.4 per cent of the women
were in the same predicament.
What sub-type of article is it?
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Women Employment
War Industries
Labor Statistics
Unemployment Rates
Historical Trends
What entities or persons were involved?
Katherine F. Lenroot
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Key Persons
Katherine F. Lenroot
Event Details
Katherine F. Lenroot predicts 4,400,000 women working in war industries by end of year, more if married fathers drafted. Women's employment rose from 2.5 million in 1880 to over 11 million by 1940. In 1930, women's unemployment was 3.4% vs. men's 5.4%.