@inbook{10.3138/9781442685659.4,
 ISBN = {9780802094216},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442685659.4},
 abstract = {During the Second World War, women moved into the formal waged economy in record numbers, more than doubling the female labour force participation rate between 1939 and 1943. Civilian women quickly took advantage of newly opened spaces in the paid labour force and in the women’s divisions of the three armed services – army, navy, and air force. Bureaucratic Ottawa opened up somewhat as well, admitting women such as Fraudena Eaton and Dr Mary Salter at the Department of Labour and Dr Olive Ruth Russell at the Department of National Defence. The national mobilization of Canada’s womanpower was more than the},
 bookauthor = {Jennifer A. Stephen},
 booktitle = {Pick One Intelligent Girl: Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947},
 pages = {3--17},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Introduction},
 year = {2007}
}