Women of All Ages Do War Work
Photo-montage sheet of nine captioned photographs of women at war-plant work, under the headline 'Women of All Ages Do War Work'. The captions cite a count ('an estimated 1,000,000 women are now in war work') and an Army endorsement, a bandwagon and authority appeal, and direct readers to a public employment office.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
- 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)
Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-179 (NAID 513625).
Text on the object
[imprint: Department of Labor seal] WOMEN'S BUREAU WOMEN OF ALL AGES DO WAR WORK AN ESTIMATED 1,000,000 WOMEN ARE NOW IN WAR WORK TO GET WAR WORK--SEE YOUR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICE THE ARMY HAS INDORSED WOMEN AS INDUSTRIAL WORKERS HEALTHFUL WORKING CONDITIONS ARE A VITAL EFFICIENCY FACTOR ON INDUSTRY'S FRONT--WOMEN FIGHT WITH THEIR HANDS MANY OLDER WOMEN ARE EFFICIENT AS MACHINE OPERATORS THE MIGHTY STEEL INDUSTRY--THIS GIRL INSPECTS TIN PLATE THE EYES OF WOMEN ARE NEEDED FOR PRECISION WORK IT TAKES SKILL TO OPERATE A TURRET LATHE [imprint:] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., Price 10 cents [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 O - 469089
