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I'd rather do this job than any!

1 Jan 1942

28 "I'd rather do this job than any!" says 19-year-old WAAF cook, Irene. The country's big need now is that more women should enter the Services, to release men for the Offensive. Every fit man is needed in the fighting line. Yet there are THOUSANDS men doing work behind the lines that women would do just as well or better. If your present job is not essential to the war effort, this is LIKE HER where you are needed—in the WAAF or ATS. Cooks are needed above all—and what greater work could a woman do now than to cook for the boys who are going to win this war for us? ARE NEEDED Over 100 other trades are also open.
infrastructure employment industry labour supply military activity recruitment eating volunteers cooking british army royal air force female labour relations women's auxiliary air force communal feeding home defence auxiliary territorial service
Collection ID
HATOM
Document Reference
HATOM/5/24
Document Types
Ephemera
File Reference
HATOM/5
Identifier
10.1080/wtss.hatom.000005.024
Keywords
Communal Feeding Employment Female Labour Recruitment Volunteers
Language
English
Organizations Discussed
Auxiliary Territorial Service British Army Royal Air Force Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Pages
1
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
History of Advertising Trust: O&M wartime book no 5
Themes
Industry Infrastructure Military Activity Home Defence Labour Supply Relations Eating Cooking

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