How women do men's war jobs. Girls Inspect Barrage Balloons.

How women do men's war jobs. Girls Inspect Barrage Balloons. Barrage balloon seams are being cemented and inspected at a large U.S. rubber plant by girls of the American home-front forces of 4,585,000 women war workers. Inspection jobs are favorites among women war workers in America, for women have been found exceptionally efficient and patient in regard to detailed scrutiny of all types of war equipment. But thousands of other women in U.S. war industries have proven themselves equally efficient in handling complicated machines and doing highly skilled work in metals. Still other women have demonstrates their worth as engineering assistants, plane part designers and research workers in medicine, plastics and chemistry.