http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIHomefront.htm
In many ways, I think that WWII was the birth of feminism. Many women took jobs that were not normally available to women. They went to work in factories, offices, research institutions, aviation, and more. They did so to fill in for all the men who were fighting and dying in Europe and Asia. What those women learned during those years is that they could do almost anything that needed doing, anything that they put their minds and hearts to.
When the men came home from the war, they took their jobs back. It may seem unjust to the women. The eight million service men coming home, however, needed their jobs back to support their families. The had risked their lives and health for the world and it was only right to let return to the lives and jobs they had left behind.
So, while the women's jobs vanished immediately after the war, the lessons they learned did not. They remembered how they were able to do whatever was asked, whatever was put before them, and that they did it well.
Most of those women became stay at home mothers. Some became the earliest feminists. All of them passed those lessons on to their daughters.
That's my opinion anyway.
2006-09-27 09:47:22
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answered by Otis F 7
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Look up: Rosie the Riveter
and see this website:
(Women and the Home Front During World War II)
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIHomefront.htm
2006-09-27 09:45:23
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answered by Anonymous
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During WWII the majority of men were sent 2 war...this left a lot of jobs that needed 2 be done...most of which done by women. These included manufacturing machinery..nursing...basically all the normal jobs that would be done by men had do be done by women.
Hope this is some help!
2006-09-27 09:48:29
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answered by fat_arse 3
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Many women played a role in being nurses for injured soldiers. Also all the stuff the person above me said.
2006-09-27 09:40:06
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answered by T F 3
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I THINK that when the men went off to war, women took over in the workforce, factory jobs, sewing uniforms, recycling steel for tanks. Plus they had to hold up society while all the men were gone.
2006-09-27 09:39:19
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answered by Anonymous
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Rosie the Riveter! Women worked at making the machines that the boys carried off to war.
Also -- women were computers! That's right, that's what the women were called who made artillery angle calculation tables.
2006-09-27 10:36:05
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answered by Anonymous
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properly, i'm undecided of the right date you point out, yet France and England declared war on Germany in September, 1939 following the German invasion of Poland, so as that is while WWII began in Europe. consistent with probability your date is the date Germany invaded France, or perhaps while France surrendered?
2016-10-18 02:16:58
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answered by Anonymous
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