Women Take Over on British Railroad Systems
A pictograph sheet shows rows of woman-worker symbols above rows of marching soldier symbols, each symbol equal to 3,000 persons, with four line drawings of women railway workers. The tell is the symbol count with no date, source or total railway workforce, which presents women's numbers as men 'released for the armed forces'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Not named on the sheet (code G.P.G./AM./21A)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; British wartime government-series sheet (no named issuer), hosted by owner decision
Not named on the sheet. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-538.
Text on the object
Women take over on British Railroad Systems (Main line and London Transport Railways) EACH SYMBOL EQUALS 3,000 PERSONS WOMEN WORKING ON THE RAILWAYS MEN RELEASED FOR THE ARMED FORCES G.P.G./AM./21A.
