A public education (read propaganda) campaign was quickly undertaken, based on the primary objection of farmers who turned eager female workers away: they were wearing pants. Thousands of US and British government pamphlets and posters were put into production; they showed women in skirts and dresses ploughing fields, with messages beneath such as “God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It” and “Get Behind the Girl He Left Behind Him,” with the ghostly outline of a soldier behind a woman standing in a field (she was wearing trousers, but perhaps as a concession to male outrage, she was
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