Women and Wage Labor in Occupied Serbia 1941–1944. Policy of Collaborationist Government and German Occupation Authorities

Abstract

The article analyzes the conditions of the participation of women on the job market in occupied Serbia in the course of the World War II. Its focus is on the policy of the local collaborationist government and the attitudes of the German occupation authorities regarding female employment and the working conditions of employed women, the possibilities and forms of their employment, and the position of the female workforce. This research is conducted on the basis of archival material, wartime press, and literature.

Keywords

• women
• work
• employment
• voluntary work
• mandatory work
• female civil servants
• female educational workers
• occupation
• collaboration
• world war ii