WOMEN IN SCIENCE/ HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

JOBS AND ROLES

• Women served in jobs such as...
• Researchers
• Chemists
• Engineers
• Tech Assistants
• Mathematicians
• Biologists
• Code Breakers
• Nurses

CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES

• Women faced challenges such as...
• Discrimination
• Recieved less money than men
• Many married women weren't working
• Educated women usually didn't work in higher level jobs

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IMPACT

• Women received jobs from the government
• Produced guns and nuclear weapons.
• Earned money to help WWII

IMPORTANT FACTS AND FIGURES

• Women became a role in research that began the nuclear age
• Nurses and doctors worked in un-sanitary environments
• WWII nurses tended to hundreds of patients each day
• Nearly 350,000 worked abroad and home

Nurses and women in science made an impact in WWII