Women are surging into war industries, it was clearly shown yesterday, when United Aircraft Company officials disclosed that 6,700 are now on the payrolls, including many at the Vought-Sikorsky plant in Stratford. 63.5% of the employees hired at Sikorsky's last week were women. 70% of the total students in the training schools at Sikorsky's are women. Women are now holding important production jobs, such as lathe hands, millers, grinders, drillers, welders, riveters, and similar jobs, instead of being confined to positions as inspectors as heretofore.
(Excerpted from "Hiring of Women Soars at Sikorsky Plant," Bridgeport
Post, November 6, 1942.)
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