Supervising Women Workers was one of the first real attempts to address the fact that women were taking over menâs jobs during the manpower shortages of World War II. When âJoe,â a factory worker, admits to the boss that heâs scared of his new female coworkers and doesnât know how to behave around them, his boss gives him a lesson on the female mind. According to the film, women were highly individualistic, jealous, slow to pick up on instructions, and ânot naturally familiar with mechanical principles.â He also, among other things, warns Joe not to âmix business with pleasure.â Supervising Women Workers represents American businessesâ difficulty and confusion about how to deal with the âproblemâ of female workers, and ends up surfacing the rigid sexism and discrimination that was accepted at the time.
