On The Employment Of The Black Women In The United States During WWⅠand WWⅡ

During WWâ… and WWâ…¡, the number of women workers increased by a large margin in America. On the part of black women, historically they occupied a unique and disadvantaged position in the occupational structure of the United State. The intersection of being black and being female created a unique set of barriers in a society where whiteness and maleness were valued. Besides, when employers decided to include women and blacks into their workforce, they established a complicated hierarchy of employment preferences. And it was found that whatever the hierarchy of preferences, black women could be found at the bottom. Even employers who were willing to employ black men and white women in great numbers would not incorporate black women into their workforce. Furthermore, when black women were employed, they were generally placed on those arduous and dirty jobs. In the case of black female tobacco workers, their working environment was rather unpleasant.In this paper, black women are subdivided into several groups, including black women in the professions, such as the legal and the nursing professions, black women in domestic service, black women in the industries, such as the auto and the railroad industries, and black college women and black women in the war effort and in other occupations. Among these black women, some are talented and educated, some of them are skillful and experienced in their occupation, and some are competent and well trained. In spite of this, the situation facing black women is not improved: certain doors still remain closed to them; they are perceived inferior, and they are rarely offered the supervisory or top positions, etc. Therefore, education, skills, etc. do not necessarily improve the situation facing black women in employment.