“Mobilizing and Demobilizing California's Female
Workforce in World War II”
Heather McCarty. Associate Professor
Department of History and Political Science
Ohlone College

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Heather McCarty link is Associate Professor of History at Ohlone Collegge. She received her PhD. from the University of California, Berkeley and teaches courses on California and Western History, Women's History, Social, Cultural and Political United States History.

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Other references:

Secondary Source:
Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Chapter 4 from Abiding Courage: African American
Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (1996)

Primary Sources:
"Wiliard Waller Announces the Postwar Battle of the Sexes, 1945." An article from This
Week, the weekly magazine of the San Francisco Chronicle at that time. The author,
Williard Waller, was an associate professor of sociology at Barnard College in New York
City when this article appeared in 1945. Excerpted in Major Problems in California
History.

"Marye Stumph Recalls Her Work Experiences in an Aircraft Factory." Excerpt from an
oral history conducted by Sherna B. Gluck as part of research done for the 1980
documentary film Rosie the Riveter. Excerpted in Major Problems in California History.

"Rosie the Riveter," Fanny Christina Hill. Excerpt from her oral history conducted by
Shema Gluck in 1987. Excerpted in Modern American Women: A Documentary History