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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-197
WOMEN WHO WORKED ON THE HOME FRONT WORLD
WAR II MEMORIAL ACT
DECEMBER 1, 2021.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3531]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3531) to authorize the Women Who Worked on the Home
Front Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the Dis-
trict of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 3531 is to authorize the Women Who
Worked on the Home Front Foundation to establish a commemora-
tive work in the District of Columbia and its environs.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION1
During World War II, women filled thousands of jobs across the
country that were historically filled by men in order to allow more
men to go off to war to fight for our country. As a result, the female
percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to near-
ly 37 percent between 1940 and 1945, with nearly one out of four
married women working outside the home by 1945.2 Women
worked on farms and in defense plants, fixed cars, flew military
aircraft, and filled thousands of other jobs previously held by men.
According to the National World War II Museum, [n]early 350,000
American women served in uniform, both at home and abroad, vol-
lAlso see H.R. Rep. No. 116-470, at 2-3 (2020), https://www.congress.gov/116/crpt/hrpt470/
CRPT-116hrpt470.pdf-of which the above text is largely reproduced.
2The Role of Women, NAT'L MEM'L TO THE WOMEN WHO WORKED ON THE HOME FRONT
FOUND., https://www.whfnmf.org/projects (last visited Nov. 30, 2021).
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