Carnes, Mark C., and John A Garraty.  The American Nation: A History of the United States.  New York:  Pearson Education, Inc., 2003.

• by 1944 6.5 more women had entered the workforce – p. 743
• women got jobs for patriotism, independence, and because it had never been done before – p. 743
• rise in divorces due to hasty and difficult marriages – p. 744
• housewives dealt with shortages, ration books and running the household – p. 744
• male resistance to women labor failed as labor demand rose – p. 743

Schultz, Stanley K.  "World War II: The Impact at Home."  1999. University of Wisconsin.  14 April 2006. http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html .

•  Enola O'Connell, only woman welder at Heil Co., Milwaukee, WI

• "By 1941, however, unemployment was almost unheard of. There were actually labor shortages in some industries. As a result, more and more women entered the workforce. Women took up jobs in industry that had once been reserved for men, and "Rosie the Riveter" became a popular American icon. By 1945, women made up 36% of the nation's total workforce."
• "War Bonds provided a crucial source of revenue for the war effort. By sponsoring public stunts such as celebrity auctions, the federal government used War Bonds to sell the war to the American public instead of relying on American involvement in the war to sell bonds."
• "The necessities of war even influenced American fashion. In the spring of 1942, the War Production Board became the nation's premier clothing consultant by dictating styles for civilian apparel that would conserve cloth and metal for the war effort. For example, menswear rid itself of vests, elbow patches on jackets, and cuffs on pants. Women's clothing also relied on fewer materials and skirts became shorter and narrower. De rigueur for patriotic women were efficient, two-piece bathing suits, which created the biggest public stir since Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. Mr. Marcus of Neiman-Marcus fame called these suits "patriotic chic.""
• "The federal government also compelled Americans to cut back on foodstuffs and consumer goods. Americans, for example, needed ration cards to purchase items such as gasoline, coffee, sugar, and meat. Rationing eventually frustrated many Americans. For the first time in years, they had money to spend, but there were few goods available for purchase. This frustration kept mounting until the end of the war. When the war finally came to a close in 1945, industries returned to consumer production and Americans went on a buying spree of unprecedented proportions."

"Women, the War, and Technology."  IEEE Virtual Museum.  2006. IEEE Foundation.  15 April 2006.  http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159269&lid=1&seq=5 .

• "Most countries began accepting women as regular soldiers after World War II, and now in the United States and elsewhere, women are involved at nearly every level of military operations."
• "You won’t get to be an Admiral, but you may be the Admiral’s secretary!” The United States Coast Guard woos women with military opportunities. Even those these opportunities were very limited, they did benefit the war effort by freeing up men for combat and other duties."
• "Another early milestone in women’s involvement in the computer industry was the career of Grace Hopper. Hopper joined the U.S Navy and was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in 1944. She was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University and became one of the first programmers of the Navy’s Harvard Mark I, an early computer. After the war Hopper used her gift for computer programming to take a central role in the development of some of the first computer software."

"Women's Contribution to the War."  23 July 2003.  Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History.  15 April 2006.  <http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIHomefront.htm>.

• "Remembered today principally for her high-fashion photography for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, Toni Frissell (1907-1988) volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross, Women's Army Corps, and Eighth Army Air Force during WWII. On their behalf, she produced thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children. "
• "Frissell's leap from fashion photography into war reportage echoed the desires of earlier generations of newswomen to move from "soft news" of fashion and society pages into the "hard news" of the front page. On volunteering for the American Red Cross in 1941, Frissell said: "I became so frustrated with fashions that I wanted to prove to myself that I could do a real reporting job." Using her connections with high-profile society matrons, Frissell aggressively pursued wartime assignments at home and abroad, often over her family's objections."
• "When World War II broke out in 1939, freelance photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (b. 1905) took the first pictures of a London air-raid shelter. She was, however, new to radio when friend Edward R. Murrow hired her as the first female staff broadcaster in Europe for CBS. Before her marriage to an American diplomat ended her career in May 1940, Patterson broadcast fifty times from various locations in Europe, including Berlin. "
• "One of only a handful of American women in Europe working in radio, Patterson was among the first correspondents to use a new short-wave transmitter to broadcast on location. Of her early broadcasts, Murrow told Patterson: "Your stuff so far has been first-rate. I am pleased, New York is pleased, and so far as I know the listeners are pleased. If they aren't to hell with them." "

Plunkett, Kathleen.  " Interview with Marie Griffin."  16 March 1996.  Rutgers University.  20 April 2006. http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/Interviews/griffin_marie.html

• "KP: Do you remember where you were when you heard about Pearl Harbor?
• "MG: Yeah, that was my sister's twenty-first birthday. We were having a birthday dinner, when the news came over the radio. I had a date with a boy I met at junior college. We went out, I think to a bar to dance. Everybody was just talking about Pearl Harbor. And he signed up right away. "

• "MG: Carl lived around the corner, and we used to bicycle. My sister and I bicycled, and he bicycled. Well, because of gas rationing, we couldn't use the car very often."
• "I just didn't feel that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him, so I gave him back the ring. And I decided that I wouldn't get married during the war. Everybody was getting married, and I thought I'd decided to marry him just because he was going away to war. It wasn't really the thing to do to get married because somebody was going off to the war. At the time, I was a volunteer as a Red Cross aide. I used to train after work. I think it was a six week course, two evenings a week and all day on Saturdays. I worked in the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center hospital two nights and one weekend day, in addition to my job. So that was time consuming. It was also interesting. I learned to do a lot of nursing routines. As Red Cross Nurses's Aides, we did all nursing chores, but were not permitted to dispense medicines."

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