Female workers as Described in a Help-Wanted Information Magazine

While it is true that the female labor force came to be more actively utilized during the period of rapid economic growth, this was largely due to a labor shortage. Fast-growing heavy industries required young male labor, and female labor supplemented male labor wherever the former was in short supply. It is also true that the female labor force provided a means for employment adjustment. Often referred to as a "peripheral labor force," female workers entered the labor market when business was picking up, and lost their jobs and returned to their homes when it turned slack. Thus, as a labor force, they were marginal, going back and forth between the labor market and the home.