How did the propaganda films connect domestic labor and women's job skills in the industrial workplace? Why did the films make this connection? (3)

The films were used similarities in the actuation of skills that were already common to the women. The closeness of knob turning and levers maneuvers to the techniques used in domestic labor was exploited. The films showed women in both alternate scenarios. The film could show a lady doing a typical domestic chore and almost similar activity in the industries (Cleary, 2020). The skills needed in the war industries were referenced with the domestic chores skills. For example, the filing of one's fingernails was used alongside a continuation clip depicting a lady filing a metal fillet in the same mannerism used for the fingernails.

The films were used to empower and encourage the women into the fast learning of required skills. The films used women in the clips to further the agenda being driven at. Therefore, the clips were used to create an acceptable notion around the idea of having women strive to gain knowledge and skills they could use in the war industries. The films, therefore, were evidence that women could take on jobs in the war industries just as they had managed to perform the domestic chores. The films achieved their purpose by getting women determined in the acquisition of the required industrial skills.

How was patriotism used to influence women's behavior? (8)

Sense of responsibility

Patriotism was used to instil a sense of responsibility in the women towards the country. With this, the women were encouraged to step in and fill in the posts left vacant by the men drafted into the war. With the sense of responsibility, the government could sell its logic to have women partake in the industries. Through campaigns, the aim was aimed as the women went up to take up the jobs left vacant. With the sense of responsibility fueling their interests, the women were determined to learn what it took to fill the vacancies left in the industries.

Support system

Patriotism was used as a unifying factor among the citizens. With the supplies going into the war becoming less due to reduced productivity, the government developed a strategy to incorporate women's labor. The women were made to understand the weight of the war and what it meant for the nation. They were, therefore, to be a pillar of support that would allow the nation a favorable stand in the war. The women, therefore, took it as a duty to fill up the posts in the industries to allow and guarantee the country a potent fighting chance.

After the war, what were the women war workers expected to do? What did the workers themselves expect? Did they resist expectations that they would give up their work? What did these women do with the rest of their lives? (9)

It was expected that the women war workers would leave their posts for the men returning from war. The campaign was propelled by displaying interview films with women who were seen to be willing to let go of their job posts after the war. The films were to coax the women into letting up their job posts in favor of the men returning from war. The idea was brought forth as the reasonable and appropriate thing that the women ought to do at the war's end.

Most women, having exploited the war period and got good jobs, did not buy into the idea being put forth as popular opinion. These women were aware of the skills and competencies they had derived from the jobs and therefore were confident that they should be empowered to further their careers. These women went on to get into more distinguished job posts. This, therefore, saw the rise in women workers during and after the war. These women, therefore, took on the world and defied all odds that had been set to limit them.