More and more women work on aircraft
Nine-photograph sheet under the headline 'More and more women work on aircraft', each photo captioned: women riveting, welding, wiring and sewing fabric on a bomber's tail. Ordinary named-by-trade workers stand for all women; the technique (plain-folks) is joined to plain requests for training and equal pay.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Gender and suffrage, Home front
- 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-1367 (NAID 515021).
Text on the object
WOMEN'S BUREAU [seal: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA] MORE AND MORE WOMEN WORK ON AIRCRAFT "TRAIN THE WOMEN TO HELP MAKE PLANES, UNCLE SAM"—THE WOMEN'S BUREAU URGES WOMEN SHOULD BE PAID THE SAME RATES AS MEN WHEN THEIR JOBS ARE THE SAME TEAMWORK—ONE GIRL BUCKS THE RIVETS, ANOTHER DRIVES THEM IN WOMEN ARE WELL ADAPTED TO INSTALLATION WORK A WELDER—TRAINING MAKES WOMEN SKILLED WORKERS SHE DOES HER BIT "DOWN AND UNDER" WHERE PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE AND A NECESSITY, TOO KEEP 'EM SEWING—FANCY WORK ON A BOMBER'S TAIL THEY HAVE A GOOD TIME DOING A GOOD JOB For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., Price 10 cents [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942 O - 469066]
