There's work to be done and a war to be won... NOW!
Illustrated poster: giant red block letters spelling 'WOMEN' are worked on by small cartoon women in overalls, uniforms and a waitress outfit, with a bomber wing, locomotive and jeep around them. Headline: 'There's work to be done and a war to be won... NOW!' and 'See your U.S. Employment Service'. Many women shown in many jobs imply that joining is the common course (bandwagon).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Manpower Commission, U.S. Employment Service (artist Vernon Grant, for OWI)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- 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)
War Manpower Commission, U.S. Employment Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-240 (NAID 513682).
Text on the object
WOMEN There's work to be done and a war to be won . . . NOW! SEE YOUR U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION [signature: Vernon Grant for O.W.I.] [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944—O—598047]
