Women Made the Breadbasket of Democracy

Posted by on Jun 8, 2020 in | Comments Off on Women Made the Breadbasket of Democracy Picturing the Pennsylvania home front during World War II might call to mind images of women working in munitions plants or shipyards. Rosie the Riveter, immortalized in a 1942 war work-incentive poster, was said to be inspired by women employed in the Westinghouse East Pittsburgh Works. Outside the factories, however, women also sustained and transformed agriculture, feeding the war effort....
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