The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win!
Colour poster of a woman in a red uniform handling a transparent aircraft canopy part, with the headline 'The more WOMEN at work the sooner we WIN!' and a box listing other jobs women are needed in, ending 'See your local U.S. Employment Service'. The tell is the list of ordinary occupations and 'hundreds of other war jobs' offered as the whole picture of available work.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (OWI Poster No. 52), for the U.S. Employment Service
- 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
- Home front, 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)
Office of War Information (OWI Poster No. 52), for the U.S. Employment Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-234 (NAID 513676).
Text on the object
The more WOMEN at work the sooner we WIN! WOMEN ARE NEEDED ALSO AS: FARM WORKERS WAITRESSES TIMEKEEPERS LAUNDRESSES TYPISTS BUS DRIVERS ELEVATOR OPERATORS TEACHERS SALESPEOPLE TAXI DRIVERS MESSENGERS CONDUCTORS — and in hundreds of other war jobs! SEE YOUR LOCAL U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE [badge:] ZONE X TEMPORARY 0000 [imprint:] OWI Poster No. 52. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943—O—517134
