Women in Defense

Women in Defense was a short produced by the Office of Emergency Management shortly before the US enter the Second World War.

Opening with a shot of a statue of "the pioneer woman who helped win a continent" the film breifly outlines the way n which women could help prepare the country for the possibility of war. Among the various way women could help were:

• working in a war manufacturing plant
• sowing parachutes for US servicemen
• attending free lectures on how to prepare nutrious meals on presumably rationed food.
• Joining the WAC or the Red Cross
• donating blood.

That is also a segment on the types of costumes women would wear while engaged in war work. At the end of the film, the narrator explains women are also vital to securing a healthy American home life and children "which has always been the first line of defense"