Woman's place in war! Chemical Laboratory Assistant, Women's Army Corps
Women's Army Corps recruiting poster: a tilted photograph of a WAC chemical laboratory assistant at work, under the headline 'Woman's place in war!'. The line '239 kinds of jobs for women' offers one count as the case for enlisting (card-stacking), and the Army Service Forces emblem and a Minerva-style medallion attach the Army's standing to the appeal (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Recruiting Publicity Bureau (Women's Army Corps)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, 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. Army, Recruiting Publicity Bureau. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-259A (NAID 513701).
Text on the object
Woman's place in war! Chemical Laboratory Assistant ARMY SERVICE FORCES THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES HAS 239 KINDS OF JOBS FOR WOMEN Women's Army Corps [imprint: PC-94-RPB-2-1-44-50M; Recruiting Publicity Bureau, United States Army]
