the girls do their bit in WW2 with a ‘bang’
Toronto. I was just a tiny child when WW2 crashed on the scene. With so many men in the war, girls got the chance to do what was once a man’s job at home and there was no looking back regardless of the fact that the girls were pushed aside when the men returned home from war.
One of my wife’s aunts met her future husband when they both worked in a factory here to aid the war.
When I first started working, jobs were divided into male and female with the lower pay very obvious. The logic of the day was that women soon retired from the workforcce to marry and raise children.
But by two decades later, women were encouraged to seek promotion; jobs were no longer male or female; efforts were made to equalize payment for work not for gender. It was and is a continuing battle as the ‘glass ceiling’ still seems to exist but at an ever higher level in the more progressive companies.
My thanks to my friend George Dunbar who spotted this interesting photograph and chose to share it. The photograph appeared in Canada’s History magazine in an article written by Governor-General’s History Award winner 
Charlotte Gray— and posted back on October 10, 2018.
Note: My post title is from the song of the same name as sung by Josh Turner.
