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image. Change happened rapidly when the United States finally
entered World War I in April, 1917. By June, 1918, the
nationwide shortage of male workers - many of whom had entered
the army - was hurting industry. As a result, companies began
for the first time to seek out and accommodate women workers,
putting them into jobs that women had never before been allowed
to do. This advertisement from the Greenfield Tap and Die
Corporation in Greenfield, Massachusetts, hints at the lengths
the company would go to obtain workers.