Women in the Service

WOMEN have taken over so many jobs that it is not surprising to find them invading that most masculine of organizations, the armed forces. Even in the last war, women served in the Navy and the Marine Corps. In 1917, since it was nowhere specifically stated that yeomen must be male, the Navy enlisted 11,275 yeomen F., popularly known as Yeomanettes. The Marine Corps followed suit with 300 Marinettes. These women served as clerks, draftsmen, translators, and so forth, with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. They differed from the women in the Navy in this war chiefly in that there were no officers, and that they were allowed to serve abroad. In this war far more women have already joined the services. Since there are not men enough to keep our machines producing, to fight, and to run the elaborate bureaucracy needed to put the forces in the field, women are needed. Many desk jobs in the service can be done as easily by women as by men, and since it is desirable that a woman doing such a job be subject to the same regulation and discipline as the man she is replacing, it is logical that she be made a part of the military organization itself

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