Department of Labor This department is responsible for making sure America has a strong workforce. It works on job training, safe working conditions, minimum wage, discrimination in the workplace, and unemployment insurance.
The purpose of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees<span> of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.</span>
As women weren't drafted into the armed forces and men were, the jobs which men had were given to women. Women played a vital role thus in maintaining the American economy and in producing munitions which won the war. Not only did this mean that they gained respect but this showed that women could match men in terms of labour and so their worth was showcased.
1840- Fiji Islands. - July. Naval forces landed to punish native for attacking American exploring and surveying parties.
