During World War II many women had to join the work force to compensate for the men from the United States who had to leave and fight over seas. On April 21, 2009 One of the ladies who joined the work force named Marion Cadwell came in and talked to the history class of Skyview Highschool to explain to us the jobs women did while the men were at war. As a child Marion Cadwell grew up in Roundup and as a teenager went to Billings High which is now known as Senior High.
At the age of twenty Marion Cadwell wanted to join the job force. Her father did not want his only daughter to join the work force because he believed that it was not a woman's job, but in the end Marion joined anyways and went to Spokane to work as a parachute packer. Because of her experience sewing, Marion was put on sewing the parachutes together and to pack them into the packs. She did this for the remainder of her work force. One of the facts she told us was that before the war started men and the women who did work were paid thirty five cents an hour which was still during the depression, and by the end of the war Marion was getting paid a dollar twenty one.
At the end of the war Marion ended up marring a veteran bomber pilot and learned how to fly which was one of the things she longed to learn. Also she enrolled in Bozeman College to get a degree in art with the money she had saved with V-bonds.
With the information you have just learned about Marion, and the other information you have learned about the women's work force movement create a Wordle and send to fettigb@billings.k12.mt.us
Hillary K.
Brandon B.
Period 4
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