Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs and WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service

"Homefront Heroines" follows a group of quirky, individual and determined women who decided to go where no woman had gone before -- into the Navy as WAVES. It tells the story of the more than 100,000 women who joined the Navy during World War II.





http://www.homefrontheroines.com/exhibits/the-media-campaign/magazines/military-women-as-cover-girls/

Or read a cool book https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-all-girl-filling-stations-last.html  titled The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

Senator Barry Goldwater was a commander of a WAVE detachment during WW2, and while as a senator tried for many years to get them access to the VA... which kept getting shot down by the other congressmen... but he persisted until he was a very senior senator, and finally either wore them down, waited for less conservative senate members, or finally convinced the naysayers to pass it.