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August 2025 We’re pleased to announce a new toolkit and free resources available now about Utah women’s many roles in World War Two! As Utahns commemorate the 80th anniversary of the war’s end, this toolkit provides free resources for K-12 educators and lifelong learners. Utah women took on many new roles during WWII in the […]

BY ELIZA DURHAM, BETTER DAYS INTERN “Women are the last remaining important reservoir of labor.”[1] When the United States joined World War Two, Utah women’s roles increased in almost every area of the workforce as women stepped up to help their country. Like the national symbol of Rosie the Riveter, the women of Utah who […]

BY DARCI GARDNER, BETTER DAYS INTERN “I told them I will go AWOL before I would be a secretary,” said Kathryn Klaveano, one of the many Utah women who served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II. She went on to become a flight orderly for domestic military flights. […]

By Katherine Kitterman, Better Days 2020 Historical Director May 7, 2020 Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of V-E Day! Here’s a sampling of Utah women’s experiences on the home front during World War Two. After the United States entered the war in December 1941, millions of men were called up for military service and women […]