More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943,
making up 65 percent of the industry's total workforce (compared to just 1 percent in the pre-war years).
some 350,000 women joined the Armed Services, serving at home and abroad
source
FWIW, my mother worked in a plant making bombs to drop on the Axis powers while my father was doing the coffin corner run to Russia.
The premise of this thread --that WHITE MEN hold up the world, it a tad overstated.
Fact is this nation is in deep shit precisely because WHITE MEN are losing their jobs to yellow men and women, and brown men and women, who are DOING THEIR FORMER JOBS for less money.
And WHY is that happening??? Who is to to blame?? Crank down your knee-jerk reaction and let's debate.
Why is that happening? Well I'd posit that FREE TRADE is the culprit. An economic theory advanced by Insiders (nearly all WHITE MEN in both parties , I note) and supported mostly by folks who as yet do not understand that their jobs will be on the block sooner or later, too.
Why Pat? Do you have another theory to explain where the jobs are going?
Now obviously if every white man with a job stopped working tomorrow, there'd be hell to pay for a while.
But eventually every job formerly held by a White man would be filled.
Filled after what amount of time? And how well? "Affirmative acion" hires "fill" all kinds of jobs - but how well?
Now like seriously, Pat.
Do you realy expect me to come up with a logical response to a completely absurd scenario like this one is?
My suggestion, my fellow white man, is that you get the fuck over yourself.
We (men and women, of all races and creeds) are all in this shit together, fool!
What the fuck does such a broad, evasive statement mean? We are "all in this together", but not "all" of us get the Free Pass of "affirmative action", not "all" of us are defamed 24/7 in the lib media.
The people who need to "get over themselves" are minorities who apparently think, and in fact get, everything the leftwing mind can imagine, because their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a slave 300 years ago.
I see you imagine that since I upset you by not joining the "Poor White men" choir I must be a liberal, right?
Is it beyond your limited imagination that somebody can disagree with some goofy notion (like this one was) and not be a liberal?
I'm a nationalist, sport.
That means that my goal is to support the policies that advance this nation and the ALL the people who live in it.
I'm not wed to any school of economic theory or any party, either.
As to affirmative action?
It's a racist overreaction to past racism.
It is one good example of why many of us have a visceral disgust for LIMO liberals.
It put the burden of addressing past sexism and racism on the shoulders of precisely the people who never benefitted by that history of racism and sexism.
Speaking as a person who graduated from college in the late 70s, I have personally been screwed by those laws on at least two critical moments in my career.
Nevertheless the sort of blatent racist nonsense some of my fellow White men come up with here (like this thread) are just so much silliness.
Most jobs done in this nation can be done by people of any race and any gender.
If every white man in the world vanished, the world would go.
It would be a rocky road at first, but humanity would eventually get back on track.
There's NO shortage of non-White Men who would fill every billet currently filled by us.