The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win!
A young woman in a red dress and snood fits a curved frame inside a clear aircraft nose dome, above the promise that more women at work means an earlier victory. A panel lists the other jobs women are 'needed also as' (farm workers, bus drivers, laundresses, teachers and more) and sends readers to the U.S. Employment Service. The ordinary, neatly dressed worker makes factory work look like a normal step for any woman, and 'the sooner we win' ties each individual job to the war's end.
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Public Inquiries (OWI Poster No. 52)
- 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
- Techniques
- Plain folksGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; LOC: no known restrictions on publication)
U.S. Office of War Information; photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-12895.
Text on the object
The more WOMEN at work the sooner we WIN! WOMEN ARE NEEDED ALSO AS: FARM WORKERS TYPISTS SALESPEOPLE WAITRESSES BUS DRIVERS TAXI DRIVERS TIMEKEEPERS ELEVATOR OPERATORS MESSENGERS LAUNDRESSES TEACHERS CONDUCTORS — and in hundreds of other war jobs! SEE YOUR LOCAL U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OWI Poster No. 52. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943—O—511134
The bottom-left fine-print credit line ('OWI Poster No. 52. Additional copies...') and bottom-right print-order line are small but legible; exact punctuation/spacing is approximate.
