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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Labor, Gender and suffrage
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-946 (NAID 514452).
Text on the object
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]]
