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title: Health Tips to Women War Workers
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/health-tips-to-women-war-workers-1944/
description: 'Photo-panel instruction sheet from the Women''s Bureau: paired photographs of women at war-plant work show a ''don''t'' and a ''but'' for shoes, sitting.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Health Tips to Women War Workers, 1944 US poster: Photo-panel instruction sheet from the Women's Bureau](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/health-tips-to-women-war-workers-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/health-tips-to-women-war-workers-1944.jpg)

# Health Tips to Women War Workers

Photo-panel instruction sheet from the Women's Bureau: paired photographs of women at war-plant work show a 'don't' and a 'but' for shoes, sitting, standing, lifting and reaching. The technique is faint here; ordinary workers are shown doing the correct and incorrect posture, in the manner of plain-folks demonstration.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
WOMEN'S BUREAU
[seal: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA]
HEALTH TIPS TO WOMEN WAR WORKERS
WEAR SAFE, COMFORTABLE WORK CLOTHES
DON'T WEAR SHOES LIKE THESE . . .
BUT SENSIBLE ONES WITH LOW HEELS
DON'T SIT WITH TENSE SHOULDERS
AND CURVED BACK . . .
BUT KEEP ERECT AS A HEALTH AID
DON'T SLOUCH WHEN YOU STAND . . .
BUT KEEP YOUR NATURAL BALANCE
TO REDUCE FATIGUE
DON'T BEND OVER WHEN YOU LIFT . . .
BUT STOOP TO AVOID STRAIN
DON'T BUCKLE AT WAISTLINE
WHEN YOU REACH UP . . .
BUT KEEP THE BACK FLAT
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-[illegible]]
```

[← He volunteered for submarine service](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/he-volunteered-for-submarine-service-1944/) [Help equip G. I. Joe with your war savings →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/help-equip-gi-joe-war-savings-1944/)

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