User:Clouds90210/Hello Girls

Service
* paragraph 3, sentence 2*

Pershing was aware of the contributions women had made to the war front and had even called on female clerical workers to serve so that more men could be moved to the Front.

* paragraph 4*

Most of the women who served ended up being from urban areas of the United States and Canada where there was more access to this technology. These women were single, well educated, and independent. The average age of employment was twenty-six, which was young for the time, but most had worked previous jobs and had at-least one foreign-born parent. Finally, they had all proclaimed the spirit of patriotism for the Allied cause before heading on their way.

* paragraph 7*

By the end of the war, AT&T had formed a labor force of women trained to work with a specific technology. Assumptions made about women in the workplace greatly affected this labor system and is most notably seen in the gendering of the job as a switchboard operator to be feminine as well as the language expected by the women who now work this job (expecting to hear "Hello" from the "Hello Girls").

Military status
* end of paragraph 4*

By that time there were only eighteen of the original Hello Girls who had left for France in 1918, but they indicated no resentment toward their long awaited victory.

Further information
When men needed to be able to access frontline communications, female switchboard operators were relied upon for training.