Women mobilised for the war industries

[Max Payload]

In an earlier thread on this site, one post quoted statistics from the Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich indicating the percentage of women in the total native civilian workforce rising from 41% to 51% from 1940 to 1944. The post also stated "the proportion of [German] women in the workforce was higher than in any other western country, even in 1939, before the war."
This suggests that the relatively high proportion of women in the civilian workforce was a cultural/historical phenomenon in Germany unrelated to the war effort. Given the general Nazi view of the role of German women as being primarily that of raising as many healthy children as possible, and accepting that women were widely employed by the military as nurses, clerical staff etc, is there any evidence that German women were widely mobilised for more general war work (farm labouring, munitions factories etc) as a matter of State policy in the early to middle period of the war?

[tigre]

Hello to all ; bumping the post, although no data....................

Home Front!

In the diligence of the creative German woman, the front fully rely...............

Source: 1942 - Energie - Technische Fachzeitschrift - 6 Hefte

Cheers. Raúl M .

[Vikki]

I did some research on threads posted on the Forum on this subject before I realized how old the original post by Max Payload was. This post http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 9#p1726749 has a (probably now incomplete) list of topics on women in the workforce, and the posts following it have some good photographic evidence.

~Vikki