WORKING CONDITIONS FOR FEMALE EMPLOYEES

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The shift from peacetime to war production has increased the call for women, many whom have never worked before and others who have been engaged only in service, trade or other nonfactory jobs. Considering the entire labor force of the United States, the employment of women has been increasing at a faster rate than that of men.1In March 1943 the number of women working outside their homes reached an all time peak of 15,200,000. Total male employment declined between March 1942 and March 1943 by 5 per cent, but employment of women went up 14 per cent. In some key industries, such as aircraft, the number of women has risen from nearly zero to hundreds of thousands. In aircraft women total more than a third of the workers, in some individual plants more than half. In communications equipment 58 per cent of the workers are women, in scientific

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