• Frank J. Taylor
• Sybil Lewis
• Peggy Terry
• Florence Hall

At the beginning of World War II (1939–45) approximately 50 million women over the age of fourteen lived in the United States. Ninety percent were white, 9 percent were black, and the other 1 percent included American Indians, Japanese Americans, Hispanic Americans, and other ethnic minority groups. Between 12 million and 14 million of these adult women were part of the U.S. labor force; they made up roughly 25 percent of the nation's total workforce. Most white working women were relatively young: They generally had just graduated from...