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H. Rept. 117-197 1 (2021-12-01)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaecq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED 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). 29-006