[smokingfrog]

I wonder how many of these photos were “staged.”

I see one woman working at an airfield and she’s wearing sandals. The women doing machinist work are not wearing gloves, eye protection, etc. Many of them seem a little to dressed up.

[fella]

I'm old enough to have worked in factories when what we consider normal safety equipment today was unheard of. And women being gussied-up at work was fairly normal especially on Fridays.

[AnalogReigns]

Other than in welding, I don’t think eye-protection was required of anyone in the 1940s.

As to being staged: OF COURSE THE PHOTOS WERE STAGED! These were surely war-propaganda photos showing how hard all American people—even young women—were working to defeat tyranny.

MacArthur’s landing at the Philippines was refilmed (with new, pressed, dry pants every time) what 2 times? So of course photos like this were staged.

[Antoninus II]

women doing machinist work are not wearing gloves

Wearing gloves while running a manual machine is just asking to lose a finger or hand...

[Mr. K]

"I see one woman working at an airfield and she’s wearing sandals. The women doing machinist work are not wearing gloves, eye protection"

Dude- there was no OSHA back then - today the company would get sued into oblivion or stomped on by the jack-booted government thugs