On the Homefront

#3 Women at Home

• Mobilizing the economy for the war would effectively pull America out of the Great Depression

• Created 19 million new jobs

• Families had to move, and long hours were required.

• With so many white men in the army, employers would hire women and minorities

• 2.5 million women worked in the factories initially and then eventually 18.8 million by the wars end. 

• Rosie the Riveter