The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
c. 1943. A female postal employee with a postal bag over her arm checks an address against a letter she is holding. Many jobs are now available to women due to manpower shortages with so many men in the armed forces. (This image appears on page 250 of the album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill housed in the AWM Archive Store)
c. 1944. Women serve customers from behind the counter in a butcher's shop. Note the piles of meat on paper bags at the end of the counter. Manpower shortages had rendered it necessary for women in so
Vic. c. 1944. Three tram conductresses walk together down a road carrying their ticket and money bags. This was an avenue in which women were helping to relieve manpower shortages. (This image appears
Vic. c. 1944. A policewoman with the Victorian Police Force tightens the nuts on the wheel of a car. Policewomen were engaged in clerical and lighter work in the Department at this time of manpower sh
Melbourne, Vic. c. 1944. A woman employed in the work force as a taxi driver for Yellow Cabs sits at the wheel of her car. The position was available to her due to manpower shortages with so many men
c. 1944. A woman employed as a peace officer checks the bag of an employee at a factory. All factories, both Commonwealth and privately owned, had these security personnel stationed at entrances and e
c.1944. One of the few women dentists in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) examines the teeth of a male RAAF patient while watched by another female. (This image appears on page 58 of
